They said it

Victor Diaz Jr.

“In 20 years, I’ve never seen so many police officers enforcing the liquor laws on the beach. This is what is needed to change the culture of the police department and the kids. It says to them, ‘no, you’re not going to be stinking drunk and then staggering through our neighborhoods.’ ”

“We’ve been tired of them not being police officers. Hey, get out of your cars and police! It’s about cops enforcing the laws. Yes, we have some disgruntled kids. So what? Throw a Frisbee and flirt with the girls.” -Victor Diaz Jr., former Miami Beach commissioner and vice president of the South of Fifth Association, quoted in a Miami Herald story on Miami Beach police getting tough on spring breakers.

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“David is David. He’s highly energetic, highly entertaining, and somewhat acerbic. You have to take what he says not with a grain of salt, but an entire salt shaker.” -Miami real estate "mogul" Jack Lowell describing Miami Marlins president David Samson in today's Miami Herald.