Rick Scott
Rick Scott
Richard Lynn "Rick" Scottis an American businessman and politician who has been the 45th Governor of Florida, since 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party of Florida...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth1 December 1952
CityBloomington, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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You have got to make sure there's due process for somebody that's accused of a crime. You've got make sure they're safe.
anybody cannot cost money raise
You cannot go out and say, oh, I am going to raise all this spending, but it's not going to cost anybody any money.
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You know, Floridians, we've paid into Social Security. Like a lot of other government programs, we sent money to D.C. We expect to get that money back. We expect that our Social Security is real. So, we have to fix Social Security.
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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.
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What you see is when the government gets involved, you run out of money and health care gets rationed.
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Taxpayers need a businessman who knows how to create jobs, cut costs and balance budgets.
job
Part of my job is to get out and talk to people. I do that as much as I can.
attic government home reviewing
Reviewing a government budget is much like going through the attic in an old home.
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My job is to make sure that if you're a family in Florida, your children can get a good education and you have the opportunity for a job. That's my job and that's what I think about every day.
business
You're not going to build private-sector jobs if you don't like business people.
No U.S. citizen is being kicked off any voter rolls.
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General revenue - what taxpayers are willing to give government, what they think is fair to give government - is not going to grow at the same amount that the federal government basically forces us to spend on Medicaid.
You've got to be known for what you're running on, what principles.
cities community growth
How much should the state be involved in regulating the growth in communities when you already have a county doing it, or a city doing it?