Ron DeSantis

Ronald Dion DeSantis (September 14, 1978 –) is an American politician, former Navy lawyer, and author serving as the Governor of Florida.

Quotes

2015

• 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, Americans of all political background overwhelmingly support term limits, yet term limits have floundered in Congress. 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.
  • DeSantis Takes New Approach to Term Limits (May 4, 2015)

• I think all that has to be vetted in a way that errs on the side of protecting the American people. If there's a chance that someone may be inclined to be an enemy of the country, then I think you have to err on the side of caution.
  • Rep. Ron DeSantis on refugee debate: 'Err on side of protecting the American people' (November 26, 2015)

2017

• Look, Hollywood is a cesspool. The idea that Wienstein is alone, or even that conspicuous, I don’t think is true, I think this is pervasive behavior in Hollywood, and I think it does implicate the media. I think they’ve been complicit in it, I think businesses have been complicit in it.
  • Rep. Ron DeSantis: Hollywood Sexual Misconduct Must Be ‘Thoroughly Investigated’ (November 2, 2017)

2021

• We looked at the data that we had from other parts of the world as we were getting into March, and we saw that this was a virus that had a disproportionate impact on elderly people and we're the second-oldest state in the country, so that was something that was obviously very concerning to us
  • "DeSantis: 'Flawed assumptions' led some states to send COVID-positive patients to nursing homes" (February 28, 2021)

• You have hundreds of thousands of people pouring across every month
  Not only are they letting them through, they’re farming them out all across the country, putting them on planes, putting them on buses. Do you think they’re worrying about COVID for that? Of course not.
  Whatever variants there are around the world, they’re coming across that southern border.
  He’s not shutting down the virus. He’s helping facilitate it.
  Why don’t you get this border secure?
  Until you do that, I don’t want to hear a blip about COVID from you.
  • 4 August 2021 regarding Joe Biden