Rick Scott

“The hospital industry to this day works its tail off to do the right thing.”

“I support Donald Trump because I believe he's a businessperson that's going to get the economy going, but also he's going to focus on how we destroy ISIS.”

“Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare.”

“Students who have spent their childhood here in Florida deserve to qualify for the same in-state tuition rate at universities their peers and classmates do.”

“I believe that free-market principles will solve our healthcare problems.”

“I am grateful for the lessons I learned from my parents' sacrifices. They often had trouble making ends meet, so we moved for them to find work. I remember my mom would sometimes take on second jobs, like ironing, just so we could buy groceries.”

“In business, you learn from mistakes. In government, they never do.”

“By raising the minimum wage in California, 700,000 people are going to lose their jobs. There are a lot of opportunities for companies to prosper in Florida and compete here, and that's what I'm going after.”

“I believe in the right to defend yourself.”

“We are for freedom here in Florida.”

“In Florida, we're the best melting pot in the world. We love everybody coming to our state.”

“My job is to enforce the laws of Florida.”

“The CDC and the federal government have already admitted that they have failed to get ahead of the spread of Ebola in Texas, and we aren't going to let that happen in Florida.”

“The Miccosukee facility in Miami only offers bingo, poker, and video gambling machines. Because it does not have slot machines or table games, the Miccosukee tribe doesn't need an agreement with the state. The Miccosukees only answer to the federal government.”

“Let's remember, the Second Amendment has been around for over 200 years.”

“What you see is when the government gets involved, you run out of money and health care gets rationed.”

“If you're going to be successful, you better have a goal, you better find really good people, better understand where all the money's coming from. And you better measure the living daylights out of it.”

“Health-care costs when I got into the industry in '88 were 16 percent a year inflation. When I got out in 1997, they were less than 1 percent.”

“Let's have a conversation about how we destroy ISIS.”

“You're not going to build private-sector jobs if you don't like business people.”