Dan Webster

“I will say this: I've had more pro-life bills, I believe, I ruled unconstitutional - but I tried - than the entire total membership of Congress together.”

“I found a mistake in a rule. They addressed the wrong rule number... I pointed it out, did an amendment, and everybody was happy after that.”

“The principle is that every member needs to represent their district.”

“The true value of having Florida Virtual School in this mix is that it creates a gold standard for all providers to meet if they hope to compete for Florida students. This program raises the bar for everybody, even the traditional public schools. And that benefits all our children.”

“I have one desire: That is to have a principle-based, member-driven Congress. Period. That's what I want.”

“We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.”

“I've never, in my whole 30 years in office, run a negative ad.”

“I believe that Obamacare is bad for America.”

“I'm the only person that has ever run a principle-based legislative body.”

“You can think of all the things a Congress or a legislature does, and then you kind of overshadow that with the fact that a few people are going to make those decisions.”

“I have a problem with the way the House is run. I believe that a few people at the top of a pyramid of power have controlled this place for a long time.”

“It's different from Washington in that in the legislature, you have to go home and have a job and actually make a living on your own. That gives you a different perspective.”

“My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.”

“If you push down that pyramid of power and spread out the base, every member gets a chance to file their bill and have it heard and file their amendment and have it heard, as opposed to the system that we have now, which closes out, closes down bills, limits debate, and so forth.”

“Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.”

“There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.”

“We've got to prove that we can lead, and I'm going to be all-in to help prove that.”

“As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.”

“I'm a homing pigeon. When I'm in Tallahassee, I give everything I have to being, hopefully, the best legislator I can be. When I'm home, I'm home. I try to not do legislative stuff. That brings a balance to life.”

“The policy is one thing, but it's dictated by what the process is.”