Andrew Gillum Quotes

My family didn't really have newspapers at home or talk about politics - my family are not political. They were too busy getting on with it - working, looking after kids, trying to pay off the mortgage, all that stuff.

I got a family to take care of and kids to feed. That's my motivation, this is my job.

Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to work hard, save hard and to look after your family.

For the vast majority of Americans who work hard and play by the rules, paying the bills may be hard some months, but it's something we always do.

I have worked every day since the age of fifteen, supporting not only myself, but also helping a sizable family when needed.

I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibility as well and one I relish.

Mom was a housewife; Dad was an accountant. They taught me a lot about the value of working hard.

I work hard, and I haven't done badly in life. But I pretty much came from very modest roots... I go home on my train; I cut my own grass... I don't have anything against people that are more elite, but it's just not who I am or what I'm about.

I justified working so hard by knowing that I was helping to maintain the roof over our heads.

The bottom line is, I've got a wife and three kids. I've got bills I have to pay.

I'm trying to stand up so that the middle class, the working class, can finally have a say. I put them as my No. 1 priority.

Yeah I guess I don't want to end up being one of those stories where the guy ends up spending more than he has and owes money to the IRS and stuff like that. I just want to be able to take care of my family and live modestly.

I never wrestled for the money or the fame. I just wanted to be able to take care of my family. I wanted to be able to educate my children. I wanted them to have it better than I did.

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.

I want to be a voice for the thousands of women in our community who work hard, play by the rules, and still are struggling to get ahead.

I'm fortunate enough to take care of my family and provide for them, and that motivates me to keep going.

I need to raise my kids. It takes a lot of time and a lot of energy to raise kids and make men of them these days. I don't want them to be lazy and just spend their father's money.

Do I appreciate my wealth? Absolutely, yes. I'm trying to embed in my children's heads that if you don't earn it, you don't appreciate it.

We need to take care of people that are out there busting their butts trying to make it; that's what everyone's done for me.

I want to invest in hard-working families.

My focus is supporting my family and children and whatever way that comes, in a healthy way, I'm gonna do it.

The Republican party is not the party for the wealthy. We care about everyone.

We're talking about growing up in regular families, dreaming about better things, instead of popping bottles in the club and spending a lot of money that you don't have while living in your mother's basement.

I am a son, husband and father of two children. I have to take care of their needs and concerns.

I'm trying to take care of my kid, and the only way to do that is obviously being financially stable.