Quotes from the Republican debate in Florida

(Reuters) - Republican presidential candidates held a televised debate in Florida on Sunday and defended their positions on issues ranging from health care to same-sex marriage. Some responses were punctuated with humor.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, addressing a looming crisis in health care.

"We've got a situation with 10,000 baby boomers a day signing up for Social Security, going into the Medicare system. And I just want to remind everybody when all the old hippies find out that they get free drugs, just wait until what that's going to cost out there."

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, in comments on same-sex marriage.

"I did 210 weddings when I was mayor of New York City. So I have experience doing this. They were all men and women. I hope. You got to give me a little slack here. It was New York City, you know."

Arizona Sen. John McCain, addressing whether the Bush administration has been naive in dealing with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"I don't know about naive, but I do know that when I looked into Mr. Putin's eyes, I saw three letters: a K, a G and a B."

California Rep. Duncan Hunter, criticizing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's health care plan.

"It has lots of mandates. It's got to have, for example, fertility coverage. Well, what if you're 90 years old?"

Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson, in an exchange with Romney over who was the most consistent conservative.

"I didn't know there was any room to the left of Ted Kennedy. ... In fact, I didn't know there was any room to the right of him either."