Eric Garcetti Quotes
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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 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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Mayors are accountable. Local governments are accountable.
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I'm a typical mutt American. I have an Italian last name. Half-Mexican, half-Jewish.
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I prioritize my daughter and my wife.
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Campaigns are these moments of suspended animation where people usually learn how to be friends afterward.
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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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There's no question we need more housing, and we have to fight for that throughout California.
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The struggle of African Americans is everybody's struggle.
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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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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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I'm progressive, and I'm practical.
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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 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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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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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've always said we need to build resilience locally.
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The classic rules of American politics are dying, if not dead, if you look at the last two presidential elections. An African-American could never be president until one was; a TV reality star couldn't become president until one was.
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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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My main job and my overwhelming job starts with my family, my street, my neighborhood, and my city.
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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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There are two Americas: Washington and the rest of us.
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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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I don't spend much time on the computer at all, so I do most of my email on my phone if I do any at all.