Lawton Chiles Quotations

With today's agreement, we have pounded another nail in the tobacco industry's coffin,

Obviously, this is not something we want to do. This is a little like taking away Christmas, ... It's so dangerous.

Today is the first of many paydays for our people from the historic tobacco settlement,

We have the power to make the other branches of government really angry,

Three major fires were growing and threatening about 30,000 residents, ... Thus far, they have not come together. Right now, there is not an immediate threat of them coming together.

But more than the money, and the reason we really decided to settle, ... was they agreed to take down the billboards and ... quit targeting kids.

What we are really concerned about is the storm surge and tremendous rains,

Florida's never had fires like this before, never had a situation where you're fighting the weather like this before. We're having 90 to 100 new fires a day.

The more lead time we give people, the more it helps,

That's a lot of years and a lot of experience, but I don't get too philosophical about it, ... Life will go on, even for Democrats.

I hope that you will join me in praying for rain, ... I think that we have to have your prayers.

How can you raise the level of consciousness on this? How can you get the federal government to take the responsibility? Florida does not have a foreign policy. This is a federal policy or absence of federal policy. It's so clear that we're not being treated fairly. We have to come up with a solution. It hurts your head trying to figure out what to do.

We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.

You should wake up every day looking for the trouble you can get into.

The old he-coon walks just before the light of day.

I didn't come to stay. I came to make a difference.

To be a successful state, we must nurture successful children.