Rick Scott Quotes

The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.

Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.

It is clear from the reaction to our campaign so far that our message is resonating. I look forward to continuing to take this message to all Americans, and showing them that I can be as successful running the country as I was running the state of New Mexico.

I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing.

There are certain elections where policy matters more than others….Personality without a platform will not cut it.

If you're running to be president of the United States, you can't just tell people you're going to make America great again. I think you need to begin to explain exactly how you're going to do it policy-wise. We're not going to win a general election with a candidate that refuses to detail policy.

In an age when stagecraft, gauzy themes, and sound-bites have too often been substituted for leadership, Bill Clinton as a candidate made it essential to campaigning to take the specifics of governance seriously. Practical solutions were 'in;' ideology was 'out.'

If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.

In terms of the ability to go out and win - this is why you have campaigns. You go out, and you take your issues to voters, and you put them out there, and people respond, or they don't.

There are three opportunities that you have during a general election campaign where you can substantially move the needle of public opinion. One, is your convention speech; two, are the base; three, is the selection of your vice president.

Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh and Rahul Gandhi are our star campaigners. Our party will fight under their leadership.

If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.

I always think that the party that offers the most hope and ideas for the future is the party that wins.

Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.

What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.

As the Republican nominee, it was Romney's job to find a way to speak to some of those groups of voters and offer practical solutions to their difficulties that both resonated with them and sounded plausible to them.

My message of common-sense solutions is resonating with people. People around the country are starting to know who I am and starting to identify me with solutions, not rhetoric.

I'm a huge fan of a Hillary Clinton candidacy. I think Hillary will be an incredibly strong candidate, and hopefully it will inspire my party to put up someone great.

My firm belief is that people who aspire to public service should have the best advice up front, as they decide whether to run and the people decide whether to support them.

If you are running for the presidency of the United States, you better have a strong opinion.

Candidates run on the strength of their ideas, not the weight of their wallets.

A political campaign is a movement. It's built around a single candidate. It will evaporate when he or she gets elected.

Practical politics is the politics of the coming election.

You can't win an election with money alone.

You can't win an election unless you have a message.