Betsy Hodges Quotes

Betsy Hodges

Profession : Politician

Birth : September 7, 1969

A tailor is a person's best friend as far as I'm concerned, because you can take things that fit OK or look OK, and if you get them tailored, they can be fabulous.

Betsy Hodges

We can only have true public safety with public trust.

Betsy Hodges

As we are pursuing economic growth and economic development, we have to make sure it happens with and by and for everyone. That everyone gets opportunity.

Betsy Hodges

Together we are bigger than the sum of our parts.

Betsy Hodges

I'm a little obsessed with lip balm. When I go to a new place, I'll find the locally made natural lip balms and buy them as my little memento.

Betsy Hodges

I find that if I don't have enough physical activity in life, I don't do as well with anything else in my life. It's stress relief; it's good health. It's fun. It's alone time, for the most part.

Betsy Hodges

Politics is challenging for everyone's integrity... I have to wake up with myself every morning, and I have to be OK with the person I wake up with. If I string together too many days of waking up with a person I'm not happy to be, I have a lot bigger things at stake in my life than an election or a job.

Betsy Hodges

What's not fascinating about 'Wonder Woman?' She's powerful. She's strong. She gets her strength from other women. She kicks butt in the world. You know, she's bulletproof, which is appealing. But she also has the Lasso of Truth. That's the thing I would want most, that Lasso of Truth. Because in politics, it would be very handy.

Betsy Hodges

For me, governing starts with people. It doesn't start with bureaucracy. It doesn't start with policy. It starts with people and what people need to thrive.

Betsy Hodges

Donald Trump is out to destroy people's lives, and he's trying to take our democracy down. That is something we can fight with everything we've got, but having compassion for one another while we do it is going to get us a lot further.

Betsy Hodges

Since I'm a Minnesotan, that bragging thing is a little hard.

Betsy Hodges

Being deliberate in decisionmaking isn't always flashy, but it does get results.

Betsy Hodges

In Minneapolis, we believe in connection, not alienation. We believe in compassion, not indifference. We believe in love, but we are not timid.

Betsy Hodges

The nexus of Donald Trump's hateful behaviors and policies around Muslim people and immigrants comes together right here in Minneapolis. I knew immediately that the people I represent were going to be very, very scared and very, very worried for their safety.

Betsy Hodges

Donald Trump has his Twitter account, but so do I, and so do millions and millions of Americans. So the way that we can organize around that is different than what we had in the past, and we can use that tool for good, not just for evil.

Betsy Hodges

When Donald Trump comes after any part of our community, he'll find 419,000 Minneapolitans and me standing squarely in his way. That's the kind of wall I can support.

Betsy Hodges

I pray and meditate first thing in the morning.

Betsy Hodges

I journal at the end of every day and just keep track of how things are going.

Betsy Hodges

I have people I talk to on a regular basis about what's going on in my life, what am I struggling with, and where my faith is at.

Betsy Hodges

People work hard for their money, and they expect services for the dollars they put into the city.

Betsy Hodges