Quotes by Andrew Gillum - Page 1

We cannot afford to weaponize race.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
We Cannot
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Power cedes nothing without a demand.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
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I consider myself an activist who governs.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Activist
Governs
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Most people project onto you what they think you can do.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Onto
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I'm going to stay true. I'm going to stay true to my values.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Stay True
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When you tell the truth, you don't have to change your testimony.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Testimony
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I'm black. I've been black all my life, and as far as I know, I'll die black.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
All My Life
Life Black My Life
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We're going to expand access to health care by expanding Medicaid in my state.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Medicaid
Expand
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Florida A&M University was my first real introduction to politics as a heavyweight game.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Florida
Introduction
University
Heavyweight
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I'm not going to get down in the gutter with DeSantis and Trump - there's enough of that going on.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Gutter
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Listen, if Donald Trump were the man you elected president, you'd probably be pretty depressed, too.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Depressed
Donald
Donald Trump
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In the handbook of Donald Trump, they no longer do whistle calls - they're now using full bullhorns.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Calls
Whistle
Donald
Donald Trump
Handbook
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It's very clear that Mr. DeSantis is taking a page directly from the campaign manual of Donald Trump.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Directly
Donald
Donald Trump
Manual
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I've endorsed 'Medicare for All' at the federal level. I do not believe a state can accomplish that on its own.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Accomplish
Endorsed
Federal Level
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My challenge is that because I am not self-funding... I'm going out leaning on the generosity of everyday folks.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Everyday
Generosity
Leaning
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In the state of Florida, we've got a lot of issues. In fact, we've got 99 issues, and 'Hamilton' ain't one of them.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Florida
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Of course you've got a low unemployment rate when people have got to work two and three jobs just to make ends meet.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Rate
Unemployment
Unemployment Rate
Work People Three
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People are entitled to their friendships, and we're all entitled to be disappointed by our friends when they disappoint us.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Disappoint
Entitled
Friendships
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I don't need a set of message board points to tell me that people are hurting in my state. I know it because I've lived it.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Me People Know
Board
Hurting
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It's an issue that Democrats and Republicans seem to come together on, the over-influence of money in politics and in power.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Issues
Republican
Together
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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.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Florida
Governor
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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.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Golden
Golden Rule
The Golden Rule
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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.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Ought
Vote
Count
Exist
Takes
Votes
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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.'
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Spite
Dad Me Go
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The polls tell us something, but they don't tell us everything. They don't tell us how people are going to show up on Election Day.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Election
Election Day
Polls
Day People Election
Day Election People
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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.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Sibling
Graduate
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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.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Fake
Voters
Real Thing
Shown
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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.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Squarely
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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?
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Everyday
Working People
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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.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Alternative
Work Believe Better
Nominee
Whoever
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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.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Deserve
Everyday
Mortgage
Work Believe I Believe
Seat
Everyday People
Voices
Work Hard
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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.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Illegal
Unethical
Confident
Public
Wrong
Elected
Record
Stain
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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.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Dating
Cycles
Diminish
Election
Florida
Get Married
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I actually believe that Florida and its rich diversity are going to be looking for a governor who's going to bring us together, not divide us. Not misogynist, not racist, not bigots.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Bigots
Florida
Divide
Governor
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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.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Conclusion
Establishment
I Am Me Nothing
Candidate
Me I Am Nothing
Preordained
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People do want to see themselves reflected. They'll never believe that Gwen Graham, Philip Levine, Chris King, or Jeff Greene will be a better representative of their interests than I will be.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Philip
Chris
Graham
Jeff
Reflected
Representative
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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.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Secure
Voters
Engage
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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.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Gun
Nra
Parks
Guns
Lobby
Ordinance
Refused
Repeal
Sued
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I do know that I don't want to see anybody legitimately have the excuse that they are not voting because their votes don't count. That can't happen - whether I'm the one impacted by that vote or not.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Excuse
Count
Impacted
Votes
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I ran as a Democrat. I am a Democrat. And, frankly, the values that I hold, I think, are consistent with the values of the Democratic Party. In fact, I think they are the values shared by the majority of Floridians.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Consistent
Democratic Party
Ran
Frankly
Shared
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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.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Gun
Loved Ones
Snuff
Belt
Check
Convicted
Domestic
Waist
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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.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Asset
Chop
Hates
Next Thing
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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.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Bidding
Big Business
Florida
Lobbyists
Rhetoric
Business People Big
Divisive
Donald
Donald Trump
Governor
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I have the lived experience of a Black man in America, also raising Black kids, but I also have the lived experience of being a responsible person who is responsible for the resourcing and the outfitting of a law enforcement agency.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Kids
Men
America
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Every single day there are communities and people in communities who are hurting in real deep ways. The problems that they're suffering from are very nuanced, but they're granular in nature and they require real intentional planning in order to begin to lift the burden off of some of these communities that have been generationally and inter-generationally plagued by those kinds of problems. The challenge will remain. Whether we can rise to it, will the establishment rise to those challenges is a different question.
Andrew Gillum / Mayor Of Tallahassee
Hurt
Order
Real
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