Eric Garcetti Quotes
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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.
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I think connected to poverty is the trauma of poverty. It's not just a material thing; it's a psychological thing that we have no mental health system in this country.
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It sure would be nice to have a Washington that was there for us, but most help has always been local and regional.
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You see as mayors and local officials our jobs are designed so we have more in common with our constituents than Washington politicians can ever have.
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Tax cuts that actually go to working-class, middle-class people, I'm not opposed to.
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I'll never stop listening to police officers over politicians.
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I have a piano in my office, and sometimes during meetings, I'll sit down and goof on the keyboard a little bit.
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Latinos are not monochromatic. You know, they trace their ancestry back to South America, to Central America, to Mexico, like in my family, and the Caribbean. And it's - we're a very diverse group. And we care about a lot more than just immigration, though we're passionate about having sensible immigration policies that don't go after our families.
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You don't have to be Latino to speak powerfully about how important it is to have a police department that cares for our immigrant communities.
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Cory Booker I've known since 1993. We used to be part of the L'Chaim Society at Oxford University together.
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If you want to cut crime, if you want to end homelessness, you have to deal with sexual violence, sexual harassment, and domestic violence.
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If a sanctuary city means that our police department does not enforce federal immigration laws, then we are one. But declaring yourself a 'sanctuary city' also signals to a lot of people that you are protecting hard-core criminals, which I don't, and I don't believe in.
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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.
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I think I bring a perspective that local communities are what make this country great, and they are the laboratories of democracy.
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There are two rules in politics. They say never ever be pictured with a drink in your hand, and never swear.
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Most people will be primarily getting into autonomous vehicles if we look 20, 30 years out. If we mandate that autonomous vehicles have to be electric, then we will move people into electric vehicles.
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Don't run for mayor if you don't want to basically be working all the time.
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I always say, as a leader, you've got to know when to get out of the way.
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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.
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I always thought Grover Cleveland was from Cleveland.
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The problem with the Democratic Party is, we're like, 'If we just get another presidential candidate in there, everything will be OK.' We should be focusing on school boards, city council races, state legislatures.
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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.
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Environment, homelessness, infrastructure and immigration - I'm very focused on all four, which are critical to the success of Los Angeles.
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We need a pro-worker trade approach that puts American jobs - not corporate profits - front and center.