The polls tell us something, but they don't tell us everything. They don't tell us how people are going to show up on Election Day.
I've been elected for 15 years without so much as a smidgen of a stain on my public record. I'm confident that I've done nothing wrong. Nothing unethical and nothing illegal.
When you tell the truth, you don't have to change your testimony.
If you're not at the table, you're on the menu.
I have a very easy time saying no to friends.
I do know that I don't want to see anybody legitimately have the excuse that they are not voting because their votes don't count. That can't happen - whether I'm the one impacted by that vote or not.
We fail to continue to talk to, to court, to engage our voters. And then we look up and expect our nominees to look up and go from 0 to 100 in a matter of two months to try to secure a victory.
I don't want to be that person who's looking squarely at the shortcomings in the process right where I sit and then choose to walk away and do nothing.
Florida wants to get married. We want to stop this every-two-year or every-four-year dating process where, in between those election cycles, investments in our state diminish.
The job of the governor of the state of Florida is to do what is in the best interest of the people of the state of Florida.
DeSantis can do the bidding of big business and big lobbyists and Donald Trump and his divisive rhetoric. I'm going to be here to do the business of the people of the state of Florida. That's the job of the governor of this state.
I've got a mortgage, and we've got three kids we work hard to take care of. I believe that we deserve a seat at the table, too, to represent the voices of everyday people.
I don't need a set of message board points to tell me that people are hurting in my state. I know it because I've lived it.
I'm going to stay true. I'm going to stay true to my values.
I'm black. I've been black all my life, and as far as I know, I'll die black.
Most people project onto you what they think you can do.
I am one of seven kids, number five of seven, and the first of my siblings to graduate from high school and the first to graduate from college.
This is probably an asset that my wife hates, where you compartmentalize. Most times, I think it's an asset, where you can just sort of feel like you chop off one part of your brain to do the next thing that you've got to do.
If I'm not the Democratic nominee, I'm gonna get out there and work for whoever the Democratic nominee is, because I believe they will be better than the alternative.
It's very clear that Mr. DeSantis is taking a page directly from the campaign manual of Donald Trump.
