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It is the responsibility, I think, of anybody in elected office to look for opportunities to help serve their people.
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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.
Eric Garcetti
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I always thought Grover Cleveland was from Cleveland.
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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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Los Angeles has all the ingredients of success... but we need to start with our education system.
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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 think poverty is the biggest challenge for Los Angeles and for many of our cities that have come back from the recession.
Eric Garcetti -
We need to make sure teachers are in schools and that children have teachers.
Eric Garcetti
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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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I'm a typical mutt American. I have an Italian last name. Half-Mexican, half-Jewish.
Eric Garcetti -
I'm the grandson of immigrants who came across rivers and oceans to get here, some without documentation.
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Mayors are really good at dealing with things practically.
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Cities are those laboratories of democracy that states used to be.
Eric Garcetti -
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.
Eric Garcetti
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My main job and my overwhelming job starts with my family, my street, my neighborhood, and my city.
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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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The fact is, there are far more customers for American products outside of the U.S. than there are here at home. With open markets and a level playing field, American workers can out-compete workers anywhere in the world.
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You have to listen to your own heart.
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My wife and I are foster parents.
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On things like the minimum wage, where cities as well as states are increasingly looking at income disparity, mayors will have, I think, a very strong voice.
Eric Garcetti
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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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I don't think you can lead a nation if you don't have a definition of the nation. We have to define, as Democrats, what a nation is and embrace the entire nation.
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We're looking to rebrand L.A. Not in some sort of radical way, but we've forgotten to sell this city, internationally and nationally... it's important for us to say who we are.
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The White House is not where power comes from in this country. The cities and the local communities of this nation are prepared to save Washington - and not vice versa.
Eric Garcetti