Charlie Crist Quotes

Clearly, Mayor Bloomberg did some things right. I think he did a very good job on public health. He did a very good job on environment. I think he was right to achieve mayoral control of education. I don't think he then applied it the right way.

Presidents should do whatever possible and practical to encourage an environment of cooperation and bipartisanship. And they should maintain a certain level of decorum, diplomacy and decency. But, at the end of the day, presidents get elected to enact change.

There is an analogy between conservation and education reform. The coalition around education reform is the biggest bipartisan thing going in this state right now. We need to recapture the big bipartisan spirit for conservation.

Doing what's best for our kids means having a governor that is prepared to reach across the political aisle to do what's best for the people of this state. We must care for each other.

I worked for President Bush and President Obama. I had Democratic bosses and Republican bosses. I believe in order to actually get things done, we do need to buckle down and often reach across the aisle.

When a president doesn't know the policy, it doesn't make for a very effective leader.

I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.

I have a long, long record of working with Democrats and Republicans alike.

President Obama is highly concerned with education. He's a champion on early-childhood development strategies. So I like the work he's doing, and I support it, and I realise that he's one of very few political leaders around the world that actually has early-childhood development strategise at the top of his agenda.

The growth in emissions is coming from the developing world. So if we are going to get out of this, it's going to come out of a process of cooperation and collaboration. That's why it really requires a paradigm shift.

What makes a successful country is when you invest in the people of the country - whether it's education, health care, job training - and you rebuild a clean America to provide the kind of infrastructure that will be sustainable and let us grow.

Let's end the political games. Stop the finger pointing and do the work the American people sent us here to do.

We need a better strategy to achieve the national goal of a stable population, healthier and better educated.

The women Democrats and Republicans work together incredibly well.

As the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and former governor of New Jersey, I have witnessed the impact of climate change firsthand.

Our elected officials must understand that we, the American people, expect them to perform the duties of their office, even when that means working with other elected officials from different parties.

I do think that climate change is real. And I think that it's something that we have to deal with. But I also think it has to be a balance. And, you know, as governor of South Carolina, that was what I did.

President Obama makes fantastic stump speeches, but putting together an actual agenda is more complicated.

As governor, I'll put Montanans first.

One thing is for certain: under President Obama, home schooling will become a huge growth industry.

I am personally looking forward to advancing policies that will help make the future of our state even stronger than it already is.

I think, more than anything, in times of crisis we should be shedding party labels.

I just want to work with legislative council members from across the political spectrum to get things done.

I will continue to ask the president and his subordinates to work with Congress rather than against it.

After some of the most contentious years in state government, I've made it clear that I will, and can, work with anyone to get things done.