Gavin Newsom Quotes
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You can love me or hate me and disagree with me, but you sure as hell know where I stand.
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
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Do I support a driver's license for everybody? The answer is yes.
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
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I made bad decisions. That being said - the question is, does the public care about that?
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I'm really more of an executive.
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Californians are blessed with the remarkable leadership of Gov. Jerry Brown, who... has led our state to firm fiscal footing and brought us to the enviable position of dreaming - and achieving - big dreams again.
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We must continue to step in and stand up to resist reckless rhetoric and actions in a peaceful and forceful manner.
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There's something called CEQA in California - NEPA at the federal level. There's indigenous lands and autonomies relating to governance on those lands. There are all kinds of obstructions as it relates to just getting zoning approval and getting building permits.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.
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San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.
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If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
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It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.
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You need to let go of your fear and anxiety of being judged by others.
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People always thought I'd never get elected outside San Francisco; I was always more worried that I'd never get elected again inside San Francisco.
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As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional.
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San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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California is a bellwether state. California was the first state in the United States to overturn the laws against interracial marriage. It took 19 years for the rest of the country to come around to that point of view.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.