I want all tuition to stop growing.

In Florida, Medicaid is the fastest-growing part of our state budget - hands down. It is increasing at more than 3.5 times the rate of our general revenue.

I want every health care professional, every first-responder, every citizen, every visitor to know that in Florida we continue to prepare for the worst. But we pray for the best.

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.

As far as cutting jobs, you could cut whole agencies out of the federal government and not miss them.

As America knows, Obama turned down the lucrative career path guaranteed to the first African-American president of The Harvard Law Review to pursue the missions of service and teaching instead. The potential rewards for our country, now that that early choice has led him into the White House, are enormous.

Being described as a stupid bureaucrat with no link to representative democracy is difficult to take.

We'll look to the fall and if there is a new president and a new Senate that's part of a Congress willing to change, that's the next step.