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I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it.

Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.

I went to Florida when I was 15. That was my first time in America, so you learn about how different the regions are.

Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here.

I want everybody in Florida to live the American dream.

It doesn't matter how much I think I know about Florida, it still flips me on the head every time. It's just an absurd, eclectic place, and the stories that can come out of that place just never stop.

Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.

Florida is a strange place: hot, beautiful, ugly. I love it here, and how nothing makes sense but still, somehow, there is a rhythm.

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.