Sam Miller Quotations

We're ready for it. We know this drill.

We're at a critical, fragile stage here. (If) we have another hurricane season like we've had, who knows what's going to happen?

Mitigation is the only way we can dramatically reduce the losses. Clearly the newer-built houses are standing up so much better, but most of the housing stock is pre-modern construction.

Obviously rates are going up. That's what eight hurricanes will do to you.

I believe the Legislature is going to look at that. The fact that the assessments are out there will force the Legislature to look at what they can do to reduce Citizens' exposure.

Whatever the Legislature decides is fine with us.

That's well above what we are able to do even with our maximum capacity.

We can't really write (policies) in the area anymore because of the sinkholes.

We didn't get in that fight before and I don't suspect we will again. Whatever they decide is what we will have to operate on. ... I just hope no one thinks this is a magic bullet that is going to lower insurance rates unless the elected insurance commissioner can stop hurricanes.

We will make offers on the waiting list as soon as other students tell us they don't want to live with us.

The status quo - simple re-enactment of the current law - is unacceptable.

Office is not in this case yet, but it could be in the next case.

The more information that's out there, the better.

That tells me that they feel strongly that they were in the right and that they believe this is an issue that's worth fighting for.

This definition omits many other areas of the state where wind forces are considerable higher, exposing home and residents in such areas to great risk.

This is the price of living in Florida during this awful and incredible cycle we're in. We've had eight hurricanes in two years.

This makes perfect sense because often the greatest damage to a home occurs when windows and garage doors fail. When that happens, the walls may be left standing but the contents of the home are destroyed. We believe building codes that apply to areas of the state outside of the Panhandle should be applied to that region as well.

There is unanimity, however, in the belief that the current system is in disarray as a result of statutory and judicial changes during the past three decades.

It's all about following the views, and daylight.

It makes me more adventurous in trying things. Some weird vegetable will come in my box and I won't know how to use it or what to do with it, so it'll make me look up recipes.

It's been very important to financing police pensions. I can tell you the Florida Legislature passed it and determined it to be good public policy.

This is in line with the recommendations of the Legislature's Task Force on Long-Term Solutions which is calling for the elimination of the definition of wind exposure class C from Florida's building code statutes.

The investor-owned utilities did not want to come out into the rural areas because there wasn't money to be made.

You will see a similar pattern among all business groups. The majority of members of the major committees are now Republican, and certainly the key leaders are.

The carriers who have the other perils coverage on thousands of homes would be forced to decide whether to cover it all or none of it. We don't have the ability to take on any additional wind exposure. So Citizens would just get larger.

The market has performed amazingly well. But it's incredibly fragile right now.