Eric Garcetti Quotes
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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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As Mayor, I have a responsibility to ensure city government is making life better for all Angelenos, especially those whose past hard work laid the foundation for the city we enjoy today. Whether someone is born here, or comes here for college, career, or retirement, I want L.A. to be a place that welcomes all generations.
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Enthusiasm — real grassroots enthusiasm — trumps money, trumps endorsements, trumps everything.
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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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My grandfather was an undocumented immigrant. My great-grandmother, my bisabuela, carried him over the border in her arms.
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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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I'm progressive, and I'm practical.
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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 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'm a typical mutt American. I have an Italian last name. Half-Mexican, half-Jewish.
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There's no question we need more housing, and we have to fight for that throughout California.
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I prioritize my daughter and my wife.
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I kind of believe that, whenever possible, you should finish the job that you set out to do.
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Campaigns are these moments of suspended animation where people usually learn how to be friends afterward.
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Mayors are really good at dealing with things practically.
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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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There are two Americas: Washington and the rest of us.
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I've always said we need to build resilience locally.
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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'm an average American. As I joke, I'm the average Mexican American Jewish Italian mayor of the most diverse city in the world.
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I think, for me, the biggest issue is poverty in general, poverty in this time of plenty. It's reflected in homelessness. It's reflected in educational gaps. It's reflected in racial disparities.
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If I hear that Quito, Ecuador, is doing something to have a whole area of town that's zero emissions, and we're thinking about that in Los Angeles' downtown, I'm like, 'I better catch up.'
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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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My main job and my overwhelming job starts with my family, my street, my neighborhood, and my city.