Matt Gonzalez Quotes

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• 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…
• Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity, raising the minimum wage was part of that, we can't…
• I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should.
• I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I've served on two recessionary budgets, my opponent has never served on any a budget…
• I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of…
• 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 is…
• A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake…
• When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.
• Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started,…
• I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.
• 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…
• I really am disappointed when I run into people who are angry I'm leaving office.
• If you are doing well, your business will pay more in tax; if you're not doing well, you pay less.
• If you engage people honestly, and you're willing to do the leg work, people will respond to that.
• 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.
• As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he was…
• 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, but…
• I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to…
• I think a lot of politicians, rightfully so, understand that their political futures are tied to how many times people see their names in print.…
• I've run for office, and I've stood on street corners, while people walked by me and didn't want to talk to me, and did not…

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