Prosperity comes from the private sector.

I am absolutely convinced that Florida will become the most exciting place in the world to live and work.

I know that you've got to watch how you spend all the dollars. That's not the easiest thing to do. That's not what people think is the most fun thing to do, but it's the right thing to do.

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.

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?

Part of my job is to get out and talk to people. I do that as much as I can.

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.

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

We ought to be bragging about Florida!

I don't like losing money. I don't go gamble. Because I don't want to lose any money. I didn't grow up with any money and I'm not going to go gamble and lose money.

It's a hard job to become president.

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.

If I believe your jobs plan, I'm going to vote for you.

You want people to feel comfortable to walk in their neighborhoods, go out and shop, do business.

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

I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.

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

I built private sector jobs all my life.

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.

When I first ran for governor, the political class and party leaders opposed me with great vigor, and some even said if I won the primary they would never vote for me. But the voters had other ideas, and they are the only ones who count.

In the middle of the Great Depression, George Jenkins, Jr. left his job at a grocery store and decided he would open up his own store. I am sure many people thought Mr. Jenkins was crazy, but he had a dream. Today, his chain of stores employs 127,000 Floridians and is the largest employee-owned company in the country. We know it as Publix.

If you're not the establishment candidate, they're going to attack you some ways.

I've built companies, I've created jobs, I know the frustration of small businesses with higher taxes.

Nobody would think that anybody on a terror watch list should have a gun, right?