Running for office is important, and you don't really need more than to be right on the issues, and to be able to articulate what it is you believe. You don't need a certain background. You don't need to be… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it. — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
You don't have to be wealthy to run for mayor. I'm a Green Party candidate running for mayor and I'm being taken seriously. — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
At some point the rhetoric runs out, and we have to ask ourselves, 'Are we simply going to standby while somebody's rhetoric is good,… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
If you engage people honestly, and you're willing to do the leg work, people will respond to that. — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I really am disappointed when I run into people who are angry I'm leaving office. — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I think a lot of politicians, rightfully so, understand that their political futures are tied to how many times people see their names in… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
There is a preliminary belief that Tuolumne River water could be captured by other reservoirs that are downstream from Hetch Hetchy, the Cherry and… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
