14 Matt Gonzalez Quotes for You to Enjoy

Matt Gonzalez

American Politician

Born: Jun 4, 1965

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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 in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them. Matt Gonzalez

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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 part of that, we can't expect that young people are going to feel they can make a living out there for such low wages. Matt Gonzalez

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If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being self-centered and egotistical. Matt Gonzalez

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I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should. Matt Gonzalez

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It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the public at a time of an election. Matt Gonzalez

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This notion that we're going to prop up foreign governments, that we're going to invade other countries for some kind of perceived benefit where we're going to install somebody who's going to be supportive of American interests or American corporate private interests needs to stop. Matt Gonzalez

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Chard and kale are my favorite these days. Matt Gonzalez

Favorite Days

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 collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well. Matt Gonzalez

When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver. Matt Gonzalez

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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 be able to articulate what it is you believe. You don't need a certain background. You don't need to be a lawyer. You don't need to have some professional degree. Matt Gonzalez

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If you engage people honestly, and you're willing to do the leg work, people will respond to that. Matt Gonzalez

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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 think I was a credible candidate. And then four years later, I was nearly elected mayor of San Francisco, so I know what it takes. Matt Gonzalez

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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. Matt Gonzalez

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