Words matter. These are the best Andrew Gillum Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I was literally sued – drug through court for two years by the NRA and the gun lobby – all because, in my city, we refused to repeal an ordinance which said you couldn’t shoot guns in city parks.
It’s very clear that Mr. DeSantis is taking a page directly from the campaign manual of Donald Trump.
If you want to own the power of God at your waist belt, you should have a background check. If you are a domestic violence abuser, convicted, you should not have a gun where you could snuff out the lives of your loved ones.
I’ve got a mortgage, and we’ve got three kids we work hard to take care of. I believe that we deserve a seat at the table, too, to represent the voices of everyday people.
Most people project onto you what they think you can do.
If we really mean that people’s votes are to be counted, the timelines ought to exist around what it takes to count every vote.
I am one of seven kids, number five of seven, and the first of my siblings to graduate from high school and the first to graduate from college.
I’m not going to get down in the gutter with DeSantis and Trump – there’s enough of that going on.
I consider myself an activist who governs.
I’m raising three children. I’m teaching my kids what it means, the Golden Rule, to treat people like you want to be treated.
Listen, if Donald Trump were the man you elected president, you’d probably be pretty depressed, too.
Regular, everyday working people in my state recognize that communities are going to have crime. They know that. The question is what do communities do about it?
We fail to continue to talk to, to court, to engage our voters. And then we look up and expect our nominees to look up and go from 0 to 100 in a matter of two months to try to secure a victory.
Of course you’ve got a low unemployment rate when people have got to work two and three jobs just to make ends meet.
I don’t want to be that person who’s looking squarely at the shortcomings in the process right where I sit and then choose to walk away and do nothing.
What Republican voters have shown us is that when they have the choice between the real thing and the fake one, they go with the real one every time.
We’re going to expand access to health care by expanding Medicaid in my state.
I’m not calling Mr. DeSantis a racist. I’m simply saying the racists believe he’s a racist.
If I’m not the Democratic nominee, I’m gonna get out there and work for whoever the Democratic nominee is, because I believe they will be better than the alternative.
I recognize out of the box that I am not the establishment candidate. There’s nothing about me that would have anybody draw the conclusion that I am somehow preordained for anything.
Get out there and vote like your lives depend on it.
We cannot afford to weaponize race.
In spite of the fact of my dad telling me that if I did well, I could go to the military, I said, ‘No, I want to go to college.’
If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.
My challenge is that because I am not self-funding… I’m going out leaning on the generosity of everyday folks.
DeSantis can do the bidding of big business and big lobbyists and Donald Trump and his divisive rhetoric. I’m going to be here to do the business of the people of the state of Florida. That’s the job of the governor of this state.
People are entitled to their friendships, and we’re all entitled to be disappointed by our friends when they disappoint us.
This is probably an asset that my wife hates, where you compartmentalize. Most times, I think it’s an asset, where you can just sort of feel like you chop off one part of your brain to do the next thing that you’ve got to do.
The job of the governor of the state of Florida is to do what is in the best interest of the people of the state of Florida.
Florida wants to get married. We want to stop this every-two-year or every-four-year dating process where, in between those election cycles, investments in our state diminish.
I’ve been elected for 15 years without so much as a smidgen of a stain on my public record. I’m confident that I’ve done nothing wrong. Nothing unethical and nothing illegal.
When you tell the truth, you don’t have to change your testimony.
I’ve endorsed ‘Medicare for All’ at the federal level. I do not believe a state can accomplish that on its own.