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Los Angeles is the strongest defender of immigrants perhaps of any city in this country.
Eric Garcetti -
Ninety-five percent of my work is being mayor. But that 5% that nags at all of us - of what's going wrong in this country - I think is best thought out not in your own head but by getting out there, being out there, and listening to Americans.
Eric Garcetti
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I recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. And I have always recognized Jerusalem as the capital of the independent, fully sovereign Palestinian state that we all want to emerge from negotiations toward a true two-state solution.
Eric Garcetti -
When President Trump got out of the Paris climate accords, we got 412 cities to say we will do it instead, because we're on the front line with our firefighters dealing with historic fires and floods.
Eric Garcetti -
I want to turn momentum on traffic. I want to make in a dent in homelessness on the way to eradicating it on our streets. But there's always something else to do tomorrow. And you have to be at peace knowing you're not going to finish it all.
Eric Garcetti -
If you can speak Spanish, then you can have a stronger connection with the residents of Los Angeles.
Eric Garcetti -
Tax cuts that actually go to working-class, middle-class people, I'm not opposed to.
Eric Garcetti -
I won't let anybody, even the most powerful person in this country, trample our values or our Constitution. And no matter who's in the White House, I am incredibly vigilant about that and will continue to fight that fight.
Eric Garcetti
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I prioritize my daughter and my wife.
Eric Garcetti -
People elect me to make sure the chief of police is the right chief of police. They elect me to make sure I have the right person running the airport.
Eric Garcetti -
The idea of red-washing or blue-washing an entire county because a few more people vote one way or the other does a disservice to the people who live there.
Eric Garcetti -
We need a pro-worker trade approach that puts American jobs - not corporate profits - front and center.
Eric Garcetti -
Enthusiasm — real grassroots enthusiasm — trumps money, trumps endorsements, trumps everything.
Eric Garcetti -
I want to be high-profile with the average Angeleno. I want to be out there holding office hours on a curb in Boyle Heights.
Eric Garcetti
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The travel that I've spent around the country, I always come back with ideas for L.A. and vice versa: My experiences in L.A. give me an immediacy to issues that sometimes people in Washington think about but aren't experiencing every day.
Eric Garcetti -
I have to spend my time worrying about poor families at the expense of helping businesses, or vice versa. To me, I really see that's the bridge I need to build.
Eric Garcetti -
Don't run for mayor if you don't want to basically be working all the time.
Eric Garcetti -
Aggressive government spending during the Great Recession was absolutely necessary.
Eric Garcetti -
Withdrawing federal funds to prevent radiological or biological terrorist attack - that doesn't just hurt Los Angeles: that hurts America.
Eric Garcetti -
I look forward to working with the White House in areas like infrastructure, where President Trump says he wants to spend a trillion dollars. Great - we'd love to start right here in Los Angeles.
Eric Garcetti
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I'm very much a California boy. I try to eat healthy and exercise.
Eric Garcetti -
Pete Buttigieg is one of my closest friends as a mayor.
Eric Garcetti -
In Washington, you have imaginary problems, and they can't even solve the imaginary problems.
Eric Garcetti -
I think it is time for a radical federalism in this country, where people trust innovation coming from the local level and ramp that up.
Eric Garcetti