The Legislature should stop second-guessing the will of the voters.

We’ve taken a bill that was intended to preserve a ranch with important environmental features and turned it into a state-owned farm.

She did a lot of good stuff for us then.

There’s an ongoing kind of resistance movement to Babcock. But I don’t think they have the juice to deliver.

We’re not exactly in a great position to go and say we want more.

What they’re trying to do is to create the opportunity for them to be able to develop their land without them having to worry about someone challenging the development based upon the sprawl or the...

You want to help these cowboys that have been out there managing the ranch very well to keep doing that. These people working on the ranch would keep their jobs. Where are you going to...

It’s a great budget for the environment, it really is. It’s more money than they’ve ever put into the environment.

We spend more time opposing bad bills now than we did in the past. The Legislature is awful compared to what it used to be.

If approved by the legislature, this budget will set in stone Governor Bush’s environmental legacy.

We recognized Florida ranchlands contained some of the best environmental lands in the state. It’s better to have agriculture than a mall or housing.

It’s a local project that got a big chunk of money and then had problems. Members don’t forget that.

The increase they’re looking for appears to be more than they would probably get.

Well, you know, usually we’re complaining about the governor and his budget, but in this case, he really has delivered something that made us happy.

We should let the ranch be economically sustainable but also ecologically sustainable.

Money changes everything. Especially when you have a lot of it. For Governor Bush, I think you’re seeing him looking to burnish his legacy.

It seems to give kind of a very open-ended permission … to basically manage the ranch for an economic purpose. It’s lost the balance between economic and ecological.

It used to be that we really were opponents on a lot of policy issues. We weren’t listening to each other.

Most environmental decisions are based on science and we should not substitute a political decision-maker for science decision-making.