Rick Scott

I believe in the traditional American family, and I will do everything that I can to promote, you know, families.

We ought to be bragging about Florida!

In Florida, we're the best melting pot in the world. We love everybody coming to our state.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

For quite a while, I didn't receive a higher academic status. I didn't feel any discrimination against me as a woman scientist, but I hadn't produced a lot of science journal articles.