Dan Webster

As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task. ”

My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas. ”

If we do our job right, then we have everything to stand on. If we don't do our job, we have everything to lose on. ”

Some people have been talking about - every place I go, they bring up the issue of foreign aid. I go, 'You can't get rid of all foreign aid.' ”

All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress. ”

I don't do anything political on Sundays. ”

Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up power for the sake of creating the best public policy. ”

I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings. ”

If you push down that pyramid of power and spread out the base, every member gets a chance to file their bill and have it heard and file their amendment and have it heard, as opposed to the system that we have now, which closes out, closes down bills, limits debate, and so forth. ”

I would like to give evidence we can lead. And I think the only way we can do that is to unify the diversity of the party. ”