I am replacing my words of concession with an uncompromised and unapologetic call that we count every single vote. Ron DeSantis More Quotes by Ron DeSantis More Quotes From Ron DeSantis Some of our biggest media conglomerates, who claim to be avatars of the First Amendment and free exchange of ideas, they've become cheerleaders for censorship, if something doesn't fit the overriding narrative then, in their view, it's better that it's left on the cutting room floor, it's best that you edit it out of existence rather than actually tell people the truth. Ron DeSantis What we're really witnessing is Orwellian –it is a Big Tech, corporate media collusion. Ron DeSantis Floridians should not have to give up their most intimate information to use a mobile device, surf the internet, or connect with friends and family on social media. The status quo has been a one-way street with Big Tech, and we ca n’t let it go on any longer. Ron DeSantis If they have a residence and they’re not just kind of flying by night for a week or two, I’m totally fine with that, that’s a little bit different than somebody that’s just doing tourism and trying to come here. So we’re discouraging people to come to Florida just to get a vaccine. Ron DeSantis We’re in a situation where we did over 400,000 shots last week Monday through Sunday, this week we probably aren’t going to reach that just simply because we’re not getting enough vaccine. We have places that can do more and we want them to do more if we can get more than 266,000 doses we will be able to do a lot more very quickly. Ron DeSantis I think, Dr. Atlas, we're in agreement on focusing strategies in school on people who are symptomatic. Ron DeSantis I personally think its dramatically draconian that a student could get potentially expelled for going to a party. Thats what college kids do. Ron DeSantis But if they were, I would want them playing, and if they bring something back to the house, as much as I wouldn't want that, I would rather take that risk than deprive them of the opportunity to do things like this. Ron DeSantis A 70 mile-an-hour wind will be enough to take down trees and limbs that obviously interact with power lines and so, that will happen, and people should be prepared for that. Ron DeSantis So I was very concerned about things on that side as well. Ron DeSantis We need to get these testing results back in a timely fashion. Ron DeSantis That creates resistance in terms of the ability for the disease to spread. Ron DeSantis I'm confident if you can do Home Depot, if you can do Walmart, if you can do these things, we absolutely can do the schools, i want our kids to be able to minimize this education gap that I think has developed. Ron DeSantis Theres no need to be fearful, there have been way more infections than documented cases, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday. Ron DeSantis I want our kids to be able to minimize this education gap that I think has developed, in spite of good efforts with the online, its just not the same. So I worry about that gap. Ron DeSantis We spent months saying that there were certain things that were essential -- that included fast food restaurants, it included Walmart, it included Home Depot. If fast food and Walmart and Home Depot -- and look, I do all that, so I'm not looking down on it -- but if all that is essential, then educating our kids is absolutely essential, i have no doubt we can do this safely. Ron DeSantis We're not going back, closing things. Ron DeSantis What have the results been ? everyone in the media was saying Florida would be like New York or Italy and that has not happened. ... We had a tailored and measured approach that not only helped our numbers be way below what anybody predicted, but also did less damage to our state going forward. Ron DeSantis If Miami Mayor Francis Suarez follow guidelines, everything works out fine. Ron DeSantis Even with testing increasing or being flat, the number of people testing positive is accelerating faster than that. Lenny Curry know, that's evidence that there's transmission between those communities. Ron DeSantis