- “Over the past few years, as so many states in our country ground their citizens down, we in Florida lifted our people up,” DeSantis said.
- “When other states consigned their peoples’ freedom to the dustbin, Florida stood strongly as freedom’s linchpin.”
- “When the world lost its mind, and common sense suddenly became an uncommon virtue, Florida was a refuge of sanity, a citadel of freedom for our fellow Americans and for people around the world,” he added.
