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I see a bright future for Florida and for America, and my campaign will be about the ideas and principles that will help us achieve a more perfect union.

I'm a conservative, and I'm a compassionate conservative. And I think it's important that Florida continues to move in that direction.

Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.

I want everybody in Florida to live the American dream.

There's been an unfortunate history of efforts to make sure Florida's votes don't count. Given that history, it's clear why people here would be especially concerned about efforts undertaken by Super PACs and the corporations that fund them to dictate the outcome of elections.

Of all the fictions we heard last week in Tampa, the one I find most troubling is this: If we all just go our own way, our nation will be stronger for it. Because if we sever the threads that connect us, the only people who will go far are those who are already ahead.

I am absolutely convinced that Florida will become the most exciting place in the world to live and work.

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.

I feel at some point that the farm state politics will overwhelm the Florida politics.

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.