2014 was more than just an election year. It was a year that saw -- among so many events -- the Florida Legislature pass a landmark medical marijuana bill; that saw a fierce partisan fight -- in and out of court -- to prove criminal interference in congressional redistricting; that played out the controversial drama of a sitting state senator selected president of Florida State University.

Here are just a fewof the things we remember newsmakers said and that we will take away from 2014 in Florida politics.

WASHINGTON -- In 1968, a singularly traumatic year -- assassinations, urban riots, 16,899 Americans killed in Vietnam -- Vice President Hubert Humphrey, the ebullient Minnesotan, said his presidential campaign was about "the politics of joy." This was considered infelicitous.

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Looking back at our popular culture in 2014, it appears that Hollywood's power is on the wane. Politically, the leftist celebrities and the "Rock the Vote" gang couldn't help dig the Democrats out of their rut. Even that paragon of permissiveness Sandra Fluke couldn't exploit her Limbaugh-victim aura to win a state Senate seat in libertine California.