Eric Garcetti Quotes
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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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Pete Buttigieg is one of my closest friends as a mayor.
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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'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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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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I'm very much a California boy. I try to eat healthy and exercise.
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In Washington, you have imaginary problems, and they can't even solve the imaginary problems.
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Aggressive government spending during the Great Recession was absolutely necessary.
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Enthusiasm — real grassroots enthusiasm — trumps money, trumps endorsements, trumps everything.
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We need to make sure teachers are in schools and that children have teachers.
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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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Cities are those laboratories of democracy that states used to be.
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I won't let anybody, even the most powerful person in this country, trample our values or our Constitution. And no matter who's in the White House, I am incredibly vigilant about that and will continue to fight that fight.
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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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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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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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The travel that I've spent around the country, I always come back with ideas for L.A. and vice versa: My experiences in L.A. give me an immediacy to issues that sometimes people in Washington think about but aren't experiencing every day.
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I prioritize my daughter and my wife.
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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 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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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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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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Withdrawing federal funds to prevent radiological or biological terrorist attack - that doesn't just hurt Los Angeles: that hurts America.
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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.