Senator Rick Scott at CPAC DC 2025 – Day 1

Now, here in Washington, we're seeing what truly fighting back gets us. The bureaucrats are scared that their lives are being exposed. The money spigot is being turned off. NGOs across the world and liberal think tanks around the world are scrambling because their golden goose has finally laid its last egg. Corporate America is tripping over itself to reverse racist DEI programs that seek to divide us by race, gender and creed. Now, fighting back gets us a government that's listening. An administration that's focused on a stronger future. A president that really cares, who truly fights for us and will not accept the status quo any longer. Now, let me say what I said a few years ago when I introduced my plan to rescue our country. Failure is not an option. The future of this country depends on each and every one of us and the actions we take today, tomorrow and the months to come. Now, I've got grandkids. Many of you in this room and watching on TV, you've got kids and grandkids as well. In America, we used to believe we had a duty, a sacred duty to leave things better for our children and our grandchildren than we found them. $2 trillion deficits. $36 trillion in debt. Medicare and Social Security going bankrupt. Failing schools. High crime rates. That hasn't happened. Instead, our political and cultural rot has made things harder for our kids and our grandkids than they were for each of us. It's harder to get a good education now than it was when I was growing up. It's harder to buy a home. It's harder to start a business. It's harder to get a good, full-paying job. It's harder to live the American dream. That's wrong. That cannot be our legacy. Those of us fighting side-by-side in the conservative movement have faced significant obstacles, even, unfortunately, inside our own party. But you and we have kept fighting. We have to fight harder now. We have the opportunity, but it takes our fight. Now, we all watched what happened in Butler. We all saw President Trump stand up and raise his fists. And what did he do? Fight! Even in the face of unimaginable obstacles, he kept fighting. Now, we know he's going to keep fighting. I know I'm going to keep fighting. And I know everybody in this room is going to keep fighting with us. Thank you for what you're doing. God bless every one of you. God bless the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. And God bless this great country. Have a great day. Bye-bye.