The STATE of FLORIDA is an ATTRACTIVE PLACE to LIVE.

People GET very PASSIONATE about SAVING the whale, but when something LIKE a Florida indigo snake is endangered there are not a lot of people out there holding up placards.

There's something SCARY, knowing that in FLORIDA, someone can pick you up in a car and DRIVE you to 50 states. Back home, it's LIKE, 'Girl, you're 15 minutes away.'

I GOT kind of burned out, so I MOVED to FLORIDA. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising CHILDREN.

Florida is a CRAZY place, and I have PLAYED some of the wildest shows of my LIFE here.

I taped my FIRST series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, FLORIDA. The show, called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin,' was about SAVING time and money in the KITCHEN - and it was a celebration of simple and unpretentious FOOD.

I LIVED in Arizona, and I thought FLORIDA was in California because I thought oranges CAME from the same PLACE.

Growing up in Florida, it rained a lot, so we SPENT a lot of time INDOORS. I used to love Frogger. I got a lot of USE out of that and Ms. Pac-man on my LITTLE ATARI.

They did is SENT me down Clearwater, FLORIDA, and they SAID to me, Jessica, I NEED you to MAKE Jim Bakker feel better.

Florida is an AWESOME place to find sweaters. People buy a REALLY nice sweater for their trips up north, then they just keep it in the closet forever, so you're finding super nice sweaters down here at the Salvation Army. It's HARD to SAY no sometimes.

We did GREAT things when we were in CONGRESS, and I WANT to CONTINUE work on the issues that matter to SOUTH Florida, because we deserve better.

I actually was there down in FLORIDA when Prince did 'Purple RAIN' in the rain. He was out there with the GUITAR goin'. It was ABSOLUTELY AWESOME.

Every winter my wife and I take a week off and GO to a resort in FLORIDA.