"You think about what MLK stood for. He said he didn’t want people judged on the color of their skin, but on the content of their character."
"This war on academic freedom is not dissimilar to the war on science, the war on truth, Joy, this positively Orwellian idea that we cannot talk about what is before our eyes."
"It’s fascism happening before our eyes."
"Ron DeSantis has made it very clear that he does not want COVID to be real, or that he just doesn’t believe it’s real, or he thinks it’s just like a flu and you can just have natural immunity to it."
"Don’t criticize. Don’t say anything untoward. Don’t make the dear leader look bad, because, if you do, we will pull your funding, and we will pull your job, and, in the future, we may do worse."
"This is an autocrat acting in the manner of an autocrat."
"We also want to make sure that we have the flexibility and the ability needed to respond to events in our state in the most effective way possible. And some of that will require us to be able to have ..."
"the strange authoritarian world of Ron DeSantis, deploying his own paramilitary force and issuing confidential executive orders."
"That`s who`s the surgeon general of Florida right now, thanks to Governor Ron DeSantis."
"COVID vaccines are not preventing infection. It`s just not."
"I heard some stuff, some weird stuff from the secretary of transportation, trying to make this about social issues. And, to me, a road is a road."