"I didn't leave the Republican Party. It left me."

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Source : Charlie Crist, Ellis Henican (2014). “The Party's Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat”, p.6, Penguin

Charlie Crist

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“God wants to give you victory, but He can only do it if you show up for the battle.”
“We are rare and precious because we are alive, because we can think as well as we can. We are privileged to influence and perhaps control our future. I believe we have an obligation to fight for life on Earth - not just for ourselves, but for all those, humans and others, who came before us, and to whom we are beholden, and for all those who, if we are wise enough, will come after.”

Source : Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 25 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado
“From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.”
“Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I understand your mother has six." "Right." "And you're the oldest." "Yes." "That's too bad. Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.”
“We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn't work.”
“Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.”
“I think we all go through times in our lives when we decide, "I'm going to try something else." I tried filmmaking instead of painting, and I think I enjoyed it more. So I don't paint anymore.”
“Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again...”

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