Charlie Crist Quotes

I was a Republican and I saw the activists and what they were doing, it was intolerable to me.

It’s more important to promote a culture of life. What I mean by that is that I believe what we need to do is not change the law, but change hearts.

I’m a conservative, and I’m a compassionate conservative. And I think it’s important that Florida continues to move in that direction.

I’m pro-life. I’m pro-gun. I’m pro-family. And I’m pro-business.

As a former lifelong Republican, it pains me to tell you that today’s Republicans – and their standard-bearers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan – just aren’t up to the task. They’re beholden to ‘my way or the highway’ bullies, indebted to billionaires who bankroll ads and allergic to the very idea of compromise.

I’ll continue to fight for school choice and home schooling. Do I believe in accountability? You bet I do.

Hurricane Charley is the worst natural disaster to befall our state in a dozen years, and it is unthinkable that anyone would try to take advantage of neighbors at a time like this,.

Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn’t leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn’t leave the Republican Party; it left me.

I’ve decided to do it, for the pure and simple reason that I just think it’s the right thing to do.

When I was a Republican governor, he was obviously a Democratic president, but on issue after issue after issue, President Obama was very helpful to us in education, in the environment, with the handling of the BP oil spill.

I’m here tonight, not as a Republican, not as a Democrat, but as an optimistic American who understands that we must come together behind the one man who can lead the way forward in these challenging times: my president, our president, Barack Obama!

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