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.
More Quotes from Matt Gonzalez:
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.Matt Gonzalez
I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should.
Matt Gonzalez
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
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.
Matt Gonzalez
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.
Matt Gonzalez
It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the public at a time of an election.
Matt Gonzalez
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Law & Regulation Quotes, Society & Civilization QuotesBased on Keywords: components, corresponding, incarceration, preventative
Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
Lord Byron
Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.
Vicente Fox
We own 18 percent of just the PC business. Now that's only about 60 percent of our business today.
Kevin Rollins