As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.

My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.

If we do our job right, then we have everything to stand on. If we don't do our job, we have everything to lose on.

Some people have been talking about - every place I go, they bring up the issue of foreign aid. I go, 'You can't get rid of all foreign aid.'

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.

I quit politics because I hated it.

We now have a political process, we've had a period of parties that have been fighting each other quite literally with bombs and bullets, talking to each other, and having sat together in the assembly and sharing government with each other.