Rick Scott Quotes

The assembly [post-revolutionary Dutch ruling body] has been reduced to a disastrous struggle between two opposed parties, each busy tearing each other apart. I can find nothing in its business but self-interest, cabals, and underhand plots.

Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.

The thing is, and Americans are starting to realize this now, that while street gangs are violent, the Democrats and Republicans are worse. They are worse because their decisions affect your life.

When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot.

The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.

I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.

The Democrats fought with the conservatives. The Republicans fought with the liberals. The Bull Moosers fought with everybody.

In the Middle East, the opposition is quite different than the opposition in advanced countries. In our countries, the opposition takes the form of explosions, assassinations, killings.

Unless Gingrich and Dole and the Republicans say, ‘Am I inflaming a bunch of nuts?’, you know we're going to have some more events (like the Oklahoma City bombing). I am absolutely certain the harsher rhetoric of the Gingriches and the Doles … creates a climate of violence in America.

I sleep soundly. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence.

If you are not willing to spill blood between elections, you’ll spill it on Election Day, and it’ll be yours.

The Trump administration is hammering again and again on the idea that Democrats will bring chaos and violence to American streets.

I've seen a lot of political violence in my life. I know what it looks like. I know what it smells like. I know what motivates young men to do it. I've talked to them about it. I know what victims feel like, you know? I know the abominable effect it has on politics. I know how intractable it is.

I represented everything Democrats loathed.

It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.

I'm part of the people who are more neutral. I'm just waiting for the dust to settle so that we can turn our guns against the Republicans.

In case we have to shoot Democrats. It happened during the Civil War, and it could happen again.

The problem with Republicans and Conservatives is we attack each other.

Even if [Donald] Trump concedes, some of his supporters have promised to take up arms against [Hillary] Clinton.

A political leader worthy of assassination

Suicide terrorism stops when we stop intervening abroad.

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy

There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.

The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.

Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot him and there'll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland?