Gavin Newsom Quotes
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Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
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Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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Good people can disagree.
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San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.
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President Trump is quick to attack American students, immigrants, women, the LGBT community, journalists, and our international allies but he is either too weak or too ignorant to stand up to white supremacists and others who spew hatred.
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If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.
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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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I don't learn in a certain way, but I have other skills.
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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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The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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I really feel it's time to dissolve the current relationship of governor and lieutenant governor by running as a ticket.
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When Californians see something we truly believe in, we say so and act accordingly - without evasiveness or equivocation.
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I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.
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If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
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Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.
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During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.
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Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.
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These Millennials are volunteering more; they're smarter than ever.
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Do what you think is right, because one damn thing is an absolute, certainly: We come and go. Politicians are a dime a dozen.
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There is nothing worse than a politician that gets defensive and starts attacking the media - and it always looks bad for the politician, because you sign up for this. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.