- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the public at a time of an election.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Cherry
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a preliminary belief that Tuolumne River water could be captured by other reservoirs that are downstream from Hetch Hetchy, the Cherry and Don Pedro reservoirs for instance. Furthermore, any shortfalls could be supplied via greater conservation efforts, newly discovered groundwater supplies, and water purchases when necessary.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Already renewable energy advocates are noting that the 42 miles of above-ground right-of-way between Yosemite and the city could be fitted with enough solar panels to generate at least 40 megawatts per year - a proposal the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has never seriously considered because they currently aren't required to do so.
- American Interests
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have a democratically elected president of Iran you don't topple him for the Shah. You don't help topple Arbenz in Guatemala. You don't do what we did in Vietnam, etc.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chard and kale are my favorite these days.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have to be in politics.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are doing well, your business will pay more in tax; if you're not doing well, you pay less.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you engage people honestly, and you're willing to do the leg work, people will respond to that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really am disappointed when I run into people who are angry I'm leaving office.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020