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Top 20 Matt Gonzalez Quotes (2025 Update)

Matt Gonzalez Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

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Matt Gonzalez Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

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Matt Gonzalez Quote: “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, a number of them in Washington state.”

3. “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, a number of them in Washington state.”

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Matt Gonzalez Quote: “I really am disappointed when I run into people who are angry I’m leaving office.”

4. “I really am disappointed when I run into people who are angry I’m leaving office.”

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Matt Gonzalez Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

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

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

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Matt Gonzalez Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

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Matt Gonzalez Quote: “If you engage people honestly, and you’re willing to do the leg work, people will respond to that.”

8. “If you engage people honestly, and you’re willing to do the leg work, people will respond to that.”

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Matt Gonzalez Quote: “I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of reaching out is by the mind of experimentation.”

9. “I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of reaching out is by the mind of experimentation.”

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Matt Gonzalez Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

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Matt Gonzalez Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

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Matt Gonzalez Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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Matt Gonzalez Quote: “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 going to win, and I guess that made an impression on me.”

13. “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 going to win, and I guess that made an impression on me.”

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Matt Gonzalez Quote: “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.”

14. “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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Matt Gonzalez Quote: “I don’t think the schools are getting as much money as they should.”

15. “I don’t think the schools are getting as much money as they should.”

— Matt Gonzalez

Matt Gonzalez Quote: “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 by making opportunities and paying decent wages.”

16. “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 by making opportunities and paying decent wages.”

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Matt Gonzalez Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

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Matt Gonzalez Quote: “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 committee where there was less money to spend than the year before.”

18. “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 committee where there was less money to spend than the year before.”

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Matt Gonzalez Quote: “If you are doing well, your business will pay more in tax; if you’re not doing well, you pay less.”

19. “If you are doing well, your business will pay more in tax; if you’re not doing well, you pay less.”

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Matt Gonzalez Quote: “I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.”

20. “I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.”

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Matt Gonzalez Quote: “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 of urgent man-made needs.”

21. “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 of urgent man-made needs.”

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Matt Gonzalez Quote: “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?”

22. “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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