Michael Tubbs Quotes

Michael Tubbs

Profession : Politician

Birth : August 2, 1990

For whatever reason, in this country we have a very interesting relationship with poverty, where we think people in poverty are bad people.

Michael Tubbs

I firmly believe that talent and intelligence are universal, but resources and opportunities are not.

Michael Tubbs

In our economic structure, the people who work the hardest oftentimes make the least. I know migrant farm workers who do back-breaking labor every day, or Uber drivers and Lyft drivers who drive 10 to 12 hours a day in traffic. You can't be lazy doing that kind of work.

Michael Tubbs

I know, for me, I want to live in a community where people's basic needs are met.

Michael Tubbs

Work does have some value and some dignity, but I don't think working 14 hours and not being able to pay your bills, or working two jobs and not being able - there's nothing inherently dignified about that.

Michael Tubbs

I tell people all the time, the status quo is so untenable to me. Like, literally, I have no patience for it.

Michael Tubbs

In college, I was so blessed to have relationships with those who did the civil rights movement.

Michael Tubbs

Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12.

Michael Tubbs

When I was in high school, people would ask me what I wanted to do, and I would always say I wanted to 'lead marches and give speeches.'

Michael Tubbs

I thought I'd be a low-key producer or something, politics and film at the same time. But also, I'm not a big movie person - my girlfriend gets mad at me because I go to sleep whenever we go to the movies.

Michael Tubbs

During the fall of my junior year, I interned in Intergovernmental Affairs in The White House with a focus on outreach to local elected officials. Although I hated the menial tasks the job required, it gave me a window into the power of local government.

Michael Tubbs

I was born and raised in the south side of Stockton, California, to a mother still in high school and a father in a juvenile detention facility.

Michael Tubbs

As the documentary 'True Son' illustrates, my campaign for city council started really small - with eight mostly political neophytes in my living room and with young people knocking on doors.

Michael Tubbs

I harbor no illusion that government and elected office is a panacea for all of society's ills.

Michael Tubbs

My mom was on welfare for the first five, six years of my life.

Michael Tubbs

I chose Anna as my wife because she is so kind yet so strong and challenges me to become a better person. She has a heart of gold and is unafraid about speaking to and living her values.

Michael Tubbs

I'm someone very interested in diversity, equity, social justice, and getting rid of white supremacy.

Michael Tubbs

The power to remove an individual from office is reserved for the greatest betrayals of public trust, not just because you disagree with someone.

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I fully support accountability and transparency.

Michael Tubbs

Growing up in Stockton wasn't all doom and gloom.

Michael Tubbs