19 Quotes by Lawton Chiles

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,