Ron Desantis Quotes

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.

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We are in a conflict, whether we like it or not. I think we have to identify the enemy and call it by its name. And the enemy is an ideology rooted in militant Islam.

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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.

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Patrick Murphy's decision to support a deal that infuses the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism with $150 billion, confers international legitimacy on Iran's expansive nuclear program, and even allows Iran to inspect its own military sites demonstrates a lack of judgment and inexperience in matters of national security.

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There are hardly any private sector employees who get both a 401k and a pension. There's just no need that Congress should get both.

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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.

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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.

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When Americans support using our military abroad, they want to see a clear plan. They want to know what they need to do and when - and policymakers want to know that there's broad public support for the effort.

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Congress cannot be allowed to impose burdens on the American people while relieving its own members of those burdens.

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If we want to defeat Hillary Clinton and have a chance to change the trajectory of our country, we need to unite behind the Republican ticket this November.

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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.

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It is crucial that the House exercises its oversight functions to ensure constitutional accountability of government agencies, especially as the bureaucracies associated with ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank flex their muscles and seek to expand their authority.

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The average person - if you had a situation that hit your family and you needed to do something, you would not just go and take a vacation, or you would not do something that's not related to the task at hand. But in Washington, that just seems to be par for the course.

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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.

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In light of the exit from the race by Ted Cruz and John Kasich, it is now clear that Donald Trump will accumulate the delegates necessary to be nominated by the Republican Party.

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

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I want to help the 2016 Republican presidential nominee, whoever that is, get our country back on track.

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Because terms limits are so popular, the interest of a member of Congress in staying in office would be congruent with supporting my term limits joint resolution.

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

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I'm honored to have the support of Attorney General Bondi. She has been a champion for constitutionally limited government in Florida and across the nation. Our state is fortunate to have a leader so dedicated to the rule of law.

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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.

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President Obama has not only failed to uphold several of our nation's laws, he has vowed to continue to do so in order to enact his unpopular agenda.

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The VA should use every tool at their disposal to support and treat our veterans, including the specialized care offered by service dogs.

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The idea that we have the capacity to change or stop the climate, I'm just skeptical.

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I am delighted to receive the support of Sheriff John Rutherford. Sheriff Rutherford is a dedicated law enforcement professional, a man of conservative values and one of the preeminent leaders in North Florida. His support carries great weight and will be helpful to me in my campaign.

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At tax time, people are going to say, 'Gee, if the IRS asks for documents from me, and I destroy them, I wouldn't get away with that.' But that's effectively what Commissioner Koskinen has been able to get away with.

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I am concerned that the vague guidelines and policies used by the NSA for intelligence collection and sharing, in conjunction with elusive direction from the Administration, have led to intelligence being collected on sitting members of Congress for political purposes.

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We must enforce the laws we have on the books, secure our borders, and deny special benefits to illegal immigrants such as in-state tuition rates. This approach is best for American citizens and is fair to those who have taken the time and effort to go through the legal immigration process.

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If a hurricane came here, I would want any relief plan to be fiscally responsible.

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The American people deserve to know exactly which laws the Obama Administration is refusing to enforce and why.

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We need to lower marginal tax rates and increase investment.

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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.

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I don't want to live in a country where the elites like Hillary Clinton do not live under the same laws as the rest of us. She needs to be held to account.

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

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I sympathize with the victims of Hurricane Sandy and believe that those who purchased flood insurance should have their claims paid.

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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.

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I think the federal flood insurance program is actuarially unsound and renders private insurance not viable, thereby needing an overhaul going forward.

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The PAWS Act is a simple bill that could have a dramatic - and potentially life-saving - effect on the lives of many.

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All public officials, including the secretary of state, must be held accountable.

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Americans of all political background overwhelmingly support term limits, yet term limits have floundered in Congress.

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An approach that phases in congressional term limits reconciles the self-interest of members of Congress with the public's desire to see these changes enacted and gives us the best chance to make term limits a reality.

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Thousands of our post-9/11 veterans carry the invisible burden of post-traumatic stress, and there is an overwhelming need to expand the available treatment options.

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Harry Reid and the Senate haven't passed a budget. Their pay should be reduced until they do.

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Something different has to be done before we make another budget deal that increases spending and raises the debt some more. Our current course is not reasonable. Our current course is insane.

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When President Obama took office, I was transitioning out of the military and just seeing that he was taking the country in a direction that I didn't think was consistent with the Founding Fathers and with our constitutional roots.

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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.

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An average person like me does not know about stuff like chasing absentee ballots.

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It is not enough for us to merely continue to talk about and contribute to the echo chamber of white noise of what's wrong with America or for candidates to spout off silly poll-tested talking points about national security or foreign policy.

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We saw how a lot of companies charge upwards of $1500 for a basic LSAT course, and we all thought that is simply way too much, even if the instruction was good.

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As it became clear that Senator Rubio was likely to run for president, I received encouragement to consider running for the Senate.

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Very rarely do firearms restrictions affect criminals. They really only affect law-abiding citizens.

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Florida is very difficult to have name ID... That's why statewide incumbents usually get reelected in Florida.

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You need to be intent on reducing size, scope, and influence of government.

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The House Judiciary Committee is a great place to promote our core principles of constitutionally limited government, individual freedom and the rule of law.

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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.

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I think, for me, anybody who is a terrorist should not have access to firearms.

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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.

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One of the things that was missing from the 2014 election was a Contract With America type of platform.

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I'm running for Congress to reverse Obama's big government policies, to be faithful to the principles on which our nation was founded, and to make members of Congress play by the same rules as the rest of us.

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A limited government is much more likely to be a competent government.

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As a candidate for Senate, I look forward to offering reforms based on limited government principles that will make our country stronger and more prosperous.

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I was always the kind of hitter that if you threw it 92 miles per hour at me, I'd hit it right back at you.

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I see a bright future for Florida and for America, and my campaign will be about the ideas and principles that will help us achieve a more perfect union.

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When you're allowing the Executive Branch to deprive somebody of a constitutional liberty without any process, that is something that affects all Americans because that's a precedent that can be used.

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I look forward to taking on issues regarding the Constitution, intellectual property, terrorism, and other legal and regulatory reforms.

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

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

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President Obama made far-reaching, unilateral changes to our nation's immigration policy despite saying on over 22 different occasions that he did not have the authority to do so.

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

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If you want to look right now under Obama who our enemies are, just look at who he is nice to.

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Don't make government work like a business... it's inherently inefficient.

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As we face an epidemic of veteran suicides, we must make sure that all of our returning servicemembers are honored and taken care of, no matter the wounds they bear.

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We must make sure that all of our returning servicemembers are honored and taken care of, no matter the wounds they bear.

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

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I am sick and tired of an administration that treats Raul Castro and Ayatollah Khamenei better than it treats the prime minister of Israel.

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

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

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I haven't let Washington change me.

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If you buy something online, you're supposed to pay a use tax.

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

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I would go bold: you don't have to be a member of Congress to be the speaker of the House. I would support someone like Dr. Carson or somebody like that; I think that would be good.

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Whatever shape my future service takes, I look forward to doing my part to help get our country back on track.

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The country's on the wrong track.

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My actions will speak louder than words.

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You can't just magically create subsides through executive fiat.

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My constituents support Israel.

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I think we need to stand with Israel.

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We need to save the country.

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At the end of the day, I'm fighting for the things I said I'd fight for.

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I don't want to write a hagiography on myself. To me, that is just a waste.

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