Eric Garcetti Quotes
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When it comes to public safety, I listen to police chiefs and cops, not to a cable-news station.
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Tax cuts that actually go to working-class, middle-class people, I'm not opposed to.
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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 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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I've worked closely with presidents, especially with President Obama, and I realized that what good leaders do at the national level is no different than what we do at the local level.
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I'm the grandson of immigrants who came across rivers and oceans to get here, some without documentation.
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I'll never stop listening to police officers over politicians.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Don't run for mayor if you don't want to basically be working all the time.
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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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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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I always thought Grover Cleveland was from Cleveland.
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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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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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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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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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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.