QUOTES by Eric Garcetti
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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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My main job and my overwhelming job starts with my family, my street, my neighborhood, and my city.
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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 recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. And I have always recognized Jerusalem as the capital of the independent, fully sovereign Palestinian state that we all want to emerge from negotiations toward a true two-state solution.
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I'm not one of those politicians, to my probably discredit, who thinks very far ahead. It has to feel right to me and not be about a careful plot and plan.
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You see as mayors and local officials our jobs are designed so we have more in common with our constituents than Washington politicians can ever have.
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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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People elect me to make sure the chief of police is the right chief of police. They elect me to make sure I have the right person running the airport.
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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 think it's really important to talk education, to talk infrastructure, to talk good jobs and the future of work.
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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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Los Angeles is the strongest defender of immigrants perhaps of any city in this country.
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What I think the average person wants is not a fight; they want to see something move forward in their own neighborhood.
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Campaigns are these moments of suspended animation where people usually learn how to be friends afterward.
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There are two rules in politics. They say never ever be pictured with a drink in your hand, and never swear.
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I have a piano in my office, and sometimes during meetings, I'll sit down and goof on the keyboard a little bit.
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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.
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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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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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The questions that consume me, that keep me up at night, are the people that are sleeping on the streets.
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We need to make sure teachers are in schools and that children have teachers.
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I think our communication strategy has been very disciplined as being a back-to-basics mayor and about focusing on making City Hall work and jumpstarting our economy.
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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 have to spend my time worrying about poor families at the expense of helping businesses, or vice versa. To me, I really see that's the bridge I need to build.
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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 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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Withdrawing federal funds to prevent radiological or biological terrorist attack - that doesn't just hurt Los Angeles: that hurts America.
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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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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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Mayors in any city are pretty non-partisan people where it's problem solvers.
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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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Tax cuts that actually go to working-class, middle-class people, I'm not opposed to.
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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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L.A. is a great city to get lost in. The best thing to do is to drive in any direction, find a strip mall, and go from one store to the next. I guarantee you will see a collision of cultures you never imagined.
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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 lived in Burma for a couple of summers in the '90s, working with the democratic resistance that had fled to the jungles.
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Ninety-five percent of my work is being mayor. But that 5% that nags at all of us - of what's going wrong in this country - I think is best thought out not in your own head but by getting out there, being out there, and listening to Americans.
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