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Some Republicans are also going to complain about our plan, they’ll argue that Democrats will use it against us in the election. I hope they do. Because my response is, ‘Bring it on.’.
Found on CNN 7 months ago
I think there will be plenty of time to discuss the 2024 presidential race. I’m running for reelection to the Senate.
Found on CNN 7 months ago
I want to make sure we balance our budget and preserve Medicare and Social Security, and I’ve been clear all along.
Found on CNN 7 months ago
Nobody believes that I want to cut Medicare or Social Security. I’ve never said it.
Found on CNN 7 months ago
I want to make sure we balance our budget and preserve Medicare and Social Security, and I’ve been clear all along. So what I want to do is get rid of wasteful programs that we never review up here.
Found on CNN 7 months ago
It’s not a fun day, but … government investigations are a matter of fact today in health care.
Found on CNN 7 months ago
He didn’t like that I opposed him because I believe we have to have ideas – fight over ideas.
Found on CNN 7 months ago
He lies about what I want to get done, and I don’t appreciate it.
Found on CNN 7 months ago
If you simply want to stick with the status quo, don’t vote for me.
Found on FOX News 10 months ago
I’m not focused on anything except getting a majority Tuesday night.
Found on FOX News 10 months ago
I don’t condone violence, and I hope no one else condones violence, it’s never, ever okay to be a racist.
Found on FOX News 10 months ago
But what we're also going to do is do everything we can to ensure to everybody they’re free and fair, and if anybody is doing–if there's any shenanigans, we're ready to make sure, we make sure we support our candidates to make sure that these elections are fair and every ballot is counted the right way.
Found on FOX News 10 months ago
No one that I know of wants to sunset Medicare or Social Security, but what we’re doing is we don’t even talk about it, medicare goes bankrupt in four years. Social Security goes bankrupt in 12 years. I think we ought to figure out how we preserve those programs. Every program that we care about, we ought to stop and take the time to preserve those programs.
Found on FOX News 10 months ago
I was surprised. I mean the race is basically close and it was within two points when they did it, so it surprised me.
Found on FOX News 10 months ago
If you trash talk our candidates... you hurt our chances of winning, and you hurt our candidates' ability to raise money, i know they're good candidates, because I've been talking to them and they're working their butts off.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
When I ran [ for governor ] in 2010, I had a very specific plan to turn around the Florida economy, which we did, i think we ought to be talking about exactly what we are going to do to turn around this country, rescue this country.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I think we ought to be talking about exactly what we are going to do to turn around this country, rescue this country.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
A company like Intel — which made $20 billion last year, and their CEO made $180 million — [they’re] going to get $3 (billion) to $4 billion to build something, but we don’t specify exactly what it is, there’s no obligation for them to build the technology we need, but they get the money and a tax credit anyway.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
They say this is an anti-China measure, but I can’t find that anywhere in the bill.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
And guess what? They can keep doing business in China, if China invades Taiwan they can keep doing business just as they are right now in China. Sounds like a pro-China bill, not an anti-China bill to me.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We're going to win so many races over inflation, it's horrible for the country. For elections, it's going to help us, but think about these poor families who are getting hurt.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Balance the budget. Start cutting taxes. Reduce the regulatory environment. And become energy independent, that's what you have to do -- and do everything you can to buy American products.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
By Monday we had three teams of people meeting in Tallahassee, one team came up and they were just going to talk about the mental health aspect. Another was educators, another was law enforcement, and they all came back with their ideas.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
You can pass a law to require people to do drills but you can’t make them do it, you can pass a law to say they have to have law enforcement there every hour. Doesn’t mean they do it because somebody has to enforce it. You can pass a law that says you have to do mental health assessments, but ultimately it’s got to be done by people locally.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Why don’t we go look and solve the problem at hand, all Democrats want to do is take away guns. What I want to do is make schools safe and so I’m going to focus on the problem at hand. We’ve got to get to the point in this country, which we can, probably not perfectly, but we’ve got to get to a point where people feel comfortable when their kids go to school that they’re going to come back safe.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
So what we did with this commission was we put together this group of people that were actually very focused on real solutions.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I think when you talk to people, the big issue they're dealing with right now is inflation, crime, the border -- stuff like that.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We'll see. I think when Mike Rounds talk to people, the big issue they are dealing with right now is inflation, crime, the border, stuff like that.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Our communities must be protected from sick individuals who exploit and victimize children, and also from liberal activist judges who abuse their sentencing discretion to let offenders off the hook. Federal sentencing guidelines for these heinous crimes are critical, and I am proud to support this good bill to ensure guidelines are strictly enforced.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This isn’t free money. It’s taxpayers’ money. And Democrats are trying to use taxpayer money – with no oversight whatsoever – to buy the support of voters who are rejecting their agenda, it makes my blood boil and should infuriate every American to see how broken Washington is.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Give them all the equipment they need, which is planes, anti-aircraft defense systems, everything they need or do a no-fly zone. One or the other, we've got to help them make sure that Russia can't continue to just indiscriminately just kill these little kids.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
My focus is to make sure that it's fair, i want to make people's taxes lower, but at the same time, you got billionaires out there that don't pay income tax.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I agree with Senator McConnell that this election will primarily be about Joe Biden and the Democrats' failures, but have been clear that I also believe Republicans should talk about a plan for turning this country around, i'm Rick Scott and I've always believed in making plans in order to get things done.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I hope we have a real conversation about what Republicans stand for, it's good for us.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We've seen it with socialism. They always felt that they have to get rid of everybody's ideas, and that's exactly what they're doing.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Canceling and silencing people is the latest book burning. That’s what they’re doing. They’re canceling and silencing people on the internet, and it’s book burning.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
You can’t allow thugs like Maduro in Venezuela and the Ayatollah on a site and then not let a conservative in America on a site.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
My focus to represent my state of Florida. My focus is to make sure we win a majority back in the Senate, when I talk to the president, what we talk about is how we’re going to win the Senate. He’s very focused on making sure we get the Senate back and he’s been very helpful.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We know his [Biden’s] agenda is very unpopular, but I've talked Mitch McConnell about this. He agrees that our candidates are going to have to have plans.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The latest with the Durham report is that the Clinton campaign, the same group that fear mongered this Russian collusion actually spied on the President of the United States, they spied on the President of the United States. They spied, and they lied.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
They spied and they lied, we need accountability. We need accountability for the Clinton campaign.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We need accountability for Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler because they were complicit in this, so the media needs to start doing their job.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I think there will be overwhelming support to have a thorough investigation and get the facts.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
What I've always said is it violated the law, and people ought to be prosecuted, it could have probably had some less ugliness to it, but it was a demonstration.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is Joe Biden's White House and Joe Biden's administration, we've seen how much the president loves to blame others, but when it comes to the total failures of this administration, like skyrocketing inflation, an open border with record illegal immigration, the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and withering American strength on the world stage, Joe Biden has no one to blame but himself.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This is Gov. DeSantis' political police squad. That's what this is, you shouldn't have partisan election officials directing an agency like this.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
President Biden had the chance to actually stand up to Beijing’s genocide and human rights abuses, but again, he has chosen appeasement and weakness over strength and resolve, time and time again, Biden does the bare minimum when it comes to dealing with China and it’s absolutely unacceptable.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Trump's GOP Senate endorsement strategy seems to be all about the past and the lost 2020 election, politics is about the future and his endorsements are not clearing the field at all.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I hope he runs for the Senate, and I’m going to do my best to get him there.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
President Joe Biden and Washington Democrats are leading our nation down an unsustainable path with their failed economic policies and reckless spending. Americans deserve better, the Democrats’ spending addiction has created an inflation crisis and their solution is to spend more and tax more.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I have a real concern about what’s going on in Cuba. We have the biggest, peaceful protests in decades. They are tired of not having food. Medicine. Water. And they are in the street. The Castro regime is cracking down, i’m disappointed in the Biden Administration. They have an opportunity to support the people of Cuba.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
As the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee I'm not gonna endorse in primaries, I'm gonna help our incumbent senators win their elections, which I think they all will, but what I want to do is we're gonna have robust primaries, we're gonna get the best candidate out that the voters in that state want, and what's gonna happen is we're gonna have a great '22.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I'm running for the Senate in 2022. I haven't thought beyond that.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I plan to attend and believe it is an important tradition that demonstrates the peaceful transfer of power to our people and to the world.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
As we approach Thanksgiving, we know this holiday will be different this year, but, listen to public health officials and follow their guidance. We will beat this together, but we all have to be responsible. I want to thank all the incredible health care workers who are working around the clock to care for patients and I pray that by next Thanksgiving, COVID-19 will be a thing of the past.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Hopefully, we make a lot of progress on the vaccine. But we still have a lot of work to do, especially work to do on testing. We got to get more testing out there for the private sector.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We haven't beaten it. I think let's all agree on that, all of us need to wear a mask, we need to social distance. ... We still have a lot of work to do. Especially work to do on testing.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I just think people ought to be able to make those decisions themselves.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Do I believe people ought to wear masks ? Yep, I believe people ought to wear masks. Do I believe people ought to social distance ? Yep, I believe they ought to social distance, do we need the President, the governors, and all the local officials to tell us how to lead our lives every day ? No. We'll figure this out.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We have failed to call out China for who they are -- call out these international organizations for who they are, and you seeDemocratsout there trying to defend the WHO. Its the craziest thing in the world.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
When it comes to coronavirus, the WHO failed. They need to be held accountable for their role in promoting misinformation and helping Communist China cover up a global pandemic, we know Communist China is lying about how many cases and deaths they have, what they knew and when they knew it and the WHO never bothered to investigate further.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
On Monday, I met with Brazilian President in Miami, and while I do not believe I interacted with the infected person, that individual was in the same room as me, after consulting with the Senate's attending physician and my personal doctor, I have been told that my risk is low, and I don't need to take a test or quarantine. However, the health and safety of the American people is my focus and I have made the decision to self-quarantine in an abundance of caution.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
My office was alerted today by the Brazilian Embassy that a member of President Jair Bolsonaro delegation tested positive for Coronavirus, on Monday, I met with Vice President in Miami, and while I do not believe I interacted with the infected person, that individual was in the same room as me.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I can't begin to tell you how John Bolton's testimony would ultimately play on a final decision but it's relevant, and therefore, I'd like to hear it.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
There is no reason we should be providing state-of-the-art military training to people who wish us harm, and most importantly, there is no reason to risk the safety and security of our American men and women in uniform. If not for the bravery displayed by the military personnel on the ground and local law enforcement, today's tragedy could have been much worse. We must be vigilant against those who wish our country and our people harm.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I don't know whether it's legal or illegal, i mean, maybe he's just saying this to make everybody crazy, make everybody talk about it on their shows.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If it is good for Florida, I am going to agree with the President. If it is bad for Florida, I am going to oppose it.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
When I don't agree with what President Donald Trump does or says, I've said it, my only commitment is with you.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
No ragtag group of liberal activists or lawyers from DC will be allowed to steal this election.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The people of Florida deserve fairness and transparency, and the supervisors are failing to give it to us, every Floridian should be concerned there may be rampant fraud happening in Palm Beach and Broward County counties.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
He is here to try to steal the election, and to try to thwart the will of the voters of Florida.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We've all seen the incompetence and irregularities in vote tabulations in Broward County and Palm Beach for years. Well, here we go again, i will not sit idly by while unethical liberals try to steal this election from the great people of Florida.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Tonight I am asking the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate this immediately, and I am considering every single legal option available.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Hurricane Michael is forecast to be the most destructive storm to hit the Florida Panhandle in decades, you can not hide from storm surge, so get out if an evacuation is ordered.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
That means the water will come miles in shore and could easily be over the roofs of houses.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Right now, according to @NHC_Atlantic, the biggest impact to our state will be heavy rain, but in Florida Keys, we know how quickly weather can change, with the peak of hurricane season upon us, now is the time to get prepared. Make sure that you and your family have a plan in place in case of disaster.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
You need to talk to Bill, i put a statement out to the secretary of Florida. That's pretty much my statement.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I ’m going to do everything I can to raise money to run ads all summer long, i ’m going to work my tail off to make sure I ’m the next U.S. Senator from Florida.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
If evacuations have been ordered in your community, do not ignore them.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
As we continue to monitor Subtropical Storm Alberto's northward path toward Florida, it is critically important that all Florida counties have every available resource to keep families safe and prepare for the torrential rain and severe flooding this storm will bring.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Do not think that only areas in the cone will be impacted -- everyone in our state must be prepared.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The only place that doesn’t want term limits on Congress is right here, Washington, that’s where all of the career politicians are. … In Washington, they say term limits cannot be done. That’s nonsense. They work for us. We don’t work for them.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I’m going to take the time and I’m going to read the bill and I’m going to talk to families.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I want to make it virtually impossible for anyone who has had mental issues to use a gun, i want to make it virtually impossible for anyone who is a danger to themselves or others to use a gun.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
These counselors cannot serve dual roles, like teaching or academic advising, every student must have the opportunity to meet one-on-one with a mental health professional, and receive ongoing counseling as needed.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Unfortunately none of the plans I’m announcing today will bring any of them back, but it’s important to remember them.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We must expand mental health service teams statewide to serve youth and young adults with early or serious mental illness by providing counseling, crisis management and other critical mental health services.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We will prohibit a person from possessing or purchasing a firearm if they are subject to an injunction for protection against stalking, cyberstalking, dating violence, repeat violence, sexual violence or domestic violence.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
An apology will never bring these 17 Floridians back to life or comfort the families who are in pain, the families will spend a lifetime wondering how this could happen, and an apology will never give them the answers they desperately need.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
‘See something, say something’ is an incredibly important tool and people must have confidence in the follow through from law enforcement, the FBI Director needs to resign.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Seventeen innocent people are dead and acknowledging a mistake isn’t going to cut it, an apology will never bring these 17 Floridians back to life.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Vice President Pence said in Fort Myers. The president monitored Irma over this past weekend from Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland. Nearly half of Florida was engulfed by Irma, which left flooded streets, damaged homes and displaced residents in its wake. Florida's southwestern coast is a haven for retirees seeking warm weather and beautiful sunsets across the Gulf of Mexico. Many communities are still cleaning up or without power or air conditioning. In Lee County, which includes Cape Coral and Fort Myers, the Florida Emergency Management Agency said 66 percent of the area's 290,000 electrical customers were still without power Wednesday. Widespread outages led to long lines outside of the relatively few stores, gas stations and restaurants that had reopened. The situation was even worse to the south in Collier County, home to Naples. Days after Irma passed, almost 80 percent of homes and businesses were still without electricity, and floodwaters still covered some communities entirely. As of Thursday morning, the number of homes and businesses without electricity in Florida was 2.69 million, according to the agency. That's 25.6 percent of all customers in the state. We are working hard to get power back on. Our utilities have restored over 4-million homes already.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
In Florida, we always prepare for the worst and hope for the best and while the exact path of Irma is not absolutely known at this time, we cannot afford to not be prepared.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Hurricane Irma is a major and life-threatening storm, and Florida must be prepared, i have continued to be briefed by the Florida Division of Emergency Management on Hurricane Irma and current forecast models have Florida in Irma’s path – potentially impacting millions of Floridians.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
In Florida, we always prepare for the worst and hope for the best, and while the exact path of Hurricane Irma is not absolutely known at this time, we can not afford to not be prepared.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I know firsthand how heartbreaking substance abuse can be to a family because it impacted my own family growing up, the individuals struggling with drug use are sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers and friends and each tragic case leaves loved ones searching for answers and praying for help.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
State Attorney Ayala's complete refusal to consider capital punishment for the entirety of her term sends an unacceptable message that she is not interested in considering every available option in the fight for justice, each of these cases I am reassigning represents a horrific loss of life. The families who tragically lost someone deserve a state attorney who will take the time to review every individual fact and circumstance before making such an impactful decision.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
It is critical that all Floridians use caution and remain alert.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We know that when any weather system enters the Gulf it can bring a lot of rain to Florida.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I am leading a delegation to Philadelphia to send a message to all Pennsylvania job creators and families that we want you to keep more of the money you make because we understand it’s your money.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I have a message today to the people of New York, Illinois, California, Pennsylvania and others: Move to Florida! over the next four years, I will be traveling to your states personally to recruit you here.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The people that left New York and Illinois had one thing in common, their number-one destination was Florida.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Over the next four years, I will be traveling to your states personally to recruit you here.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
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