"This idea that once you get into politics...……" — Matt Gonzalez
"This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office."
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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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