Quotes from Andrew Gillum

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.

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.

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.

I'm never going to make apologies for trying to create a kind of society and a kind of community where my kids will be proud to grow up in.

I'm not going to get down in the gutter with DeSantis and Trump - there's enough of that going on.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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 calling Mr. DeSantis a racist. I'm simply saying the racists believe he's a racist.

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'm raising three children. I'm teaching my kids what it means, the Golden Rule, to treat people like you want to be treated.

When you tell the truth, you don't have to change your testimony.

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.'

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'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.

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.

I'm going to stay true. I'm going to stay true to my values.

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.

I'm black. I've been black all my life, and as far as I know, I'll die black.