Lawton Chiles Quotes

#1. When I was on 'One Life to Live,' I always wanted to delve into my character, Layla, to find out why she was the black sheep of the family. I so wanted to have some edge. I have no idea why there was a reluctance to do that or why we so rarely see it.

Tika Sumpter

#2. You have to have courage to be obedient to God.

Charles Stanley

#3. We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.

Lawton Chiles

#4. I didn't come to stay. I came to make a difference.

Lawton Chiles

#5. We passed a bill in 1997, signed by Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles, which created a pilot program for a novel experiment called Florida Virtual School. The notion of children using a computer for a classroom and reporting to virtual teachers wasn't exactly mainstream thinking in those days.

Dan Webster

#6. To reach levels of success you've never reached before, you must be committed at a level you've never been committed at before.

Hal Elrod

#7. It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.

Thomas Clarkson

#8. Outsiders have the intuitive ability to continually view problems in fresh ways and to identify ineffective practices and traditions.

John P. Kotter

#9. You should wake up every day looking for the trouble you can get into.

Lawton Chiles

#10. To be a successful state, we must nurture successful children.

Lawton Chiles

#11. A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'

Paul Watzlawick

#12. Take your feet of of the brakes, push the pedal, give yourself the green light and be unstoppable.

Catrice M. Jackson

#13. The old he-coon walks just before the light of day.

Lawton Chiles

#14. A person tends to believe whatever is repeated over and over, whether it is true or not.

Nikki Sex

#15. Several politicians and wives of politicians have been public about their experiences with depression or bipolar illness, including Lawton Chiles, Patrick Kennedy, Tipper Gore and Kitty Dukakis. Each made a tremendous difference by doing so.

Kay Redfield Jamison