Eric Garcetti Quotes
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Pete Buttigieg is one of my closest friends as a mayor.
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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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Don't run for mayor if you don't want to basically be working all the time.
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In Washington, you have imaginary problems, and they can't even solve the imaginary problems.
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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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Cities are those laboratories of democracy that states used to be.
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I'm pretty skinny, and I can sleep at the drop of a hat. So, take that middle seat in economy and save the money for other things you can do.
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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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Withdrawing federal funds to prevent radiological or biological terrorist attack - that doesn't just hurt Los Angeles: that hurts America.
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Aggressive government spending during the Great Recession was absolutely necessary.
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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.
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We need to make sure teachers are in schools and that children have teachers.
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I'm very much a California boy. I try to eat healthy and exercise.
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Think about Kennedy. Think about Carter. Think about Clinton. Think about Obama. They've all been in their forties and from outside Washington, or underdogs in one way or another. I just think that Americans are looking everywhere, saying, 'Hey, show me some authenticity. Show me somebody who's practical. Show me people who run things.'
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We need a pro-worker trade approach that puts American jobs - not corporate profits - front and center.
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People will give you the responsibility, even the authority, to go after the big things, the visionary things, the reaching for incredible opportunities, if they trust that you're running a city well. And if you don't run a city well, conversely, you can't do the big things.
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Enthusiasm — real grassroots enthusiasm — trumps money, trumps endorsements, trumps everything.
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As mayor, I've traveled to China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and Mexico to meet with heads of state and business leaders to promote trade with L.A. companies and through L.A.'s seaports and airports - because that generates L.A. jobs.
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I don't want to bring a European city or an east-coast city to the West Coast.
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I am a passionate, committed composer, and the guy I used to write musicals with, once he was able to ditch me and get a better composer, actually won the Tony.
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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.
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Los Angeles has all the ingredients of success... but we need to start with our education system.
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I have an incredible compass. You can put me back in a country I haven't been in 20 years and say, 'Get me from point A to point B,' and I'll take you there.
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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.