Gavin Newsom Quotes
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The question for politicians here is fundamental: You can read the polls, or you can change the polls. Stand up on the things you believe in.
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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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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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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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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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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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You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.
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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
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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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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 Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.
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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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These Millennials are volunteering more; they're smarter than ever.
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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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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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The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
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The whole idea that the Constitution of the United States would be used to advance a political agenda is absurd.
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Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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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 will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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You don't have to be something to do something.
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Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.