Quotes from Ron DeSantis

You can get elected to Congress without ever talking to black voters at all, and I think that's bad for the party.

If Congress adds 5 percent to the debt, then their pay should be cut by 5 percent.

These Sunni Arabs in places like al Anbar province in Iraq, where I served back in 2007, if they see Iran as the dominant power, a Shiite country, they're going to be much more likely to want to join ISIS.

We need a new generation of leaders who will promote policies that will foster economic growth and alleviate the middle class squeeze, defend America's national security against those who threaten our people, reform the culture of Washington, D.C., and reassert the constitutional principles that make our country unique.

America needs a new generation of leaders to address the big issues facing the country: alleviating the middle class squeeze and promoting economic opportunity, confronting the significant national security challenges threatening the safety of our people, and reforming the culture of Washington, D.C.

Bringing accountability to Washington has been an important part of my time in office and an important part of my campaign.

Too many in Washington display a ruling class mentality, and congressional term limits would go a long way towards restoring the citizen-legislator ethos of the Founding Fathers.

I am very grateful to Jeb Bush for his support of my candidacy.

I'm honored that so many Floridians are supporting my efforts to rekindle the American Dream.

We are supposed to all be equal before the law, but we have a separate and distinct ruling class, and that is wrong.

Serving on the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight allows me to play a role making government more accountable by investigating waste, mismanagement, and improprieties.

I am pleased to be endorsed by Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Like Sheriff Joe, I believe that illegal immigration is a major problem that undermines the rule of law.

Washington was a swamp. It was not somewhere that they believed people would want to go, so the idea was that people got involved as a public service, not to make a career out of it.

Jeb Bush is the foremost authority on education reform in the Republican Party, and I will look to reform the ballooning costs of our higher education system along the lines that he has advocated.

There are some really wealthy hedge fund billionaires in San Francisco who have pledged a lot of money for Democratic candidates to argue for cap and trade and carbon tax and all these things.

Why would Russia care about chemical weapons in Syria? They have no incentive to care.

My constituents support Israel.

State and local law enforcement are the primary protectors of the health, safety, and welfare of the people in the individual states.

If we reach the debt ceiling, we don't have to default. Getting to that point just won't allow us to reach new debt.

If your goal is to destroy ISIS, there needs to be a ground force. It could be American or foreign.

We need to lower marginal tax rates and increase investment.

The practice of passing bills to find out what is in them represents a Forrest Gump-box of chocolates approach to government in which the taxpayers never know what they are going to get.

If you look at Washington right now, we do not have a system that the Founding Fathers envisioned, where people go to Washington and be part of the servant class. Instead, we have a permanent political class that fashions itself the rulers of the people.

Merely implying bias due to a judge's ethnic heritage is wrong as a matter of principle and legally illegitimate.