"At some point the rhetoric runs out, and……" — Matt Gonzalez
"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 their actions are so lousy?' Are we going to stand up for that?"
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27 Quotes by Matt Gonzalez
Matt Gonzalez has 27 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity, raising the minimum wage was…
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I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should.
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I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I've served on two recessionary budgets, my opponent has never…
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I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged…
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When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break…
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A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine…
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When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.
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Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger…
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I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells…
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Running for office is important, and you don't really need more than to be right on the issues, and to…
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I really am disappointed when I run into people who are angry I'm leaving office.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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Well begun is half done.
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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