A biography for Andrew Gillumhasn’t been written yet.
“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 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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“When you tell the truth, you don't have to change your testimony.”
“I consider myself an activist who governs.”
“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.”
“It's really interesting when I go into a community where they haven't seen me before because I often get, 'I didn't know you were black.'”
“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.”
“Florida A&M University was my first real introduction to politics as a heavyweight game.”
“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.”
“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?”
“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.”
“Listen, if Donald Trump were the man you elected president, you'd probably be pretty depressed, too.”
“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've endorsed 'Medicare for All' at the federal level. I do not believe a state can accomplish that on its own.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It's very clear that Mr. DeSantis is taking a page directly from the campaign manual of Donald Trump.”
“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.”