Eric Garcetti Quotes
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I think our communication strategy has been very disciplined as being a back-to-basics mayor and about focusing on making City Hall work and jumpstarting our economy.
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The questions that consume me, that keep me up at night, are the people that are sleeping on the streets.
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Los Angeles is the strongest defender of immigrants perhaps of any city in this country.
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Tax cuts that actually go to working-class, middle-class people, I'm not opposed to.
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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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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 agree with President Trump that we need good jobs in this country, but let's get to that business rather than the distractions of repealing Obamacare or raiding communities and taking otherwise law-abiding, contributing citizens away from their families.
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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.
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I think poverty is the biggest challenge for Los Angeles and for many of our cities that have come back from the recession.
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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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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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Pete Buttigieg is one of my closest friends as a mayor.
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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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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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L.A. is a great city to get lost in. The best thing to do is to drive in any direction, find a strip mall, and go from one store to the next. I guarantee you will see a collision of cultures you never imagined.
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I'd hate to see new housing building accelerating while taking down buildings where there's 50 people living in rent-stabilized apartments.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Cities are those laboratories of democracy that states used to be.
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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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I have a piano in my office, and sometimes during meetings, I'll sit down and goof on the keyboard a little bit.