Dan Gelber Quotations

Getting straight A's for having lots of tests is not the same as getting A's on the tests. Weighing a malnourished dog every day doesn't make him any better.

It didn't resolve anything. It really was just a big food fight between powerful special interests.

I think it will be a lasting legacy, in a sense, because he has so many picks.

A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.

At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?

It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.

I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.

Nasty is the new normal in Florida. Politics here is very gutterlike. It's like a very bad reality TV show that still gets very high ratings.

While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people who had created the scenarios they sought protection from. Or it would leave juries without the proper rules of engagement that ought govern predictable human interactions.

Florida is one of the first states that sort of gives the legislature a very clear criteria for re-drawing electoral district maps. Basically, all the criteria do is tell the legislators that you can't draw a seat that helps yourself or a political party. That's really critical.

Once you start asking public school teachers to instruct on matters of religion in science classes, you're in trouble.

It's pretty credible when Jim says that Art was unglued, and an hour later he kills himself. We're urging The Herald to release the tape.

The vast majority of tax cuts (under Bush) went to special interests, select corporations, and our most privileged and wealthy citizens. They gave the wealthy and most powerful the vast majority of your tax breaks and gave everyone else a few crumbs and told them they've been to the party.

Anyone watching this video can see that the child was very, very ill. This is not a kid who needed an attitude adjustment, this is a kid who needed medical attention.

By the majority resolution, we will be disenfranchising every voter who went to the polls in the state of Florida. This does nothing but jeopardize the process... and (we) declare ourselves the paramount authority just as the United States Supreme Court considers these very same issues.