All statements involving Rick Scott
The Affordable Care Act is "not the law of the land."
The United States' regulations "are among the most difficult in the world."
Says adding toll lanes on I-95 in Broward County improved rush-hour traffic for non-toll lanes from 25 mph to 45 mph.
Says Anthropology is a STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) field.
On how he measures his promise to create 700,000 private-sector jobs in seven years.
"At nearly 19 million people, the population of Florida is larger than all the earlier primary and caucus states combined."
Says the Panhandle has had its highest-ever bed tax collections in 2011.
Gov. Rick Scott "is trying to get a waiver under the federal health care law that would deny consumers in Florida the right to the $60 million in rebates they have from their own HMOs."
Says Gov. Rick Scott is "spending a quarter of a million of our tax dollars to robocall people."
Says Gov. Rick Scott cut state funding for PBS.
"I started with a $3.7 billion budget deficit. Now we are projecting a $1.2 billion surplus."
High-speed rail would have cost Florida taxpayers $1 billion to build.
"A recent study revealed that, across the nation, taxes would have to be increased by an average of $1,300 a year just to support the currently unsustainable public employee pension systems. In Florida, that dollar figure translates to $813 a year."
"In May we generated more jobs than all the rest of the country combined: 28,000 jobs in May for the state, 54,000 for the entire country."
"Almost 10 percent of Canadians came to visit Florida last year ... (Canadians) buy 7.4 percent of our homes in the state."
"Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare."
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