The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

There's a secret sauce in California, and I hope people pay attention to it.

If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.

San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.

You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.

The people that are serving you gas, the people that are in your restaurants serving you, the firefighters, and police officers are members of the gay and lesbian community. They're members of our broader community.

I have differences of opinion within my own family, an Irish Catholic family. So, I do respect those that disagree.

If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.

Take responsibility. Step up and step in. Because at the end of the day, folks, we are our behaviors.

As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected.

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

There's something called CEQA in California - NEPA at the federal level. There's indigenous lands and autonomies relating to governance on those lands. There are all kinds of obstructions as it relates to just getting zoning approval and getting building permits.

We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.

As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional.

Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.

As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy.

Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.

San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.

Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.

Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.

But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear.

As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options.

During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.

San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening.

We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.

As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.

San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.

We need to allow people to bypass government... to look to themselves for solving problems rather than asking the government to do things for them.

Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.

Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.

Are we going to solve the issue of poverty? Absolutely not. Are we going to have an impact? I'm committed to it, and if we don't, I'll have no regrets because we're going to try everything we can.

We do not have the right to discriminate against people.

When you have a good idea, the money flows.

Society becomes how we behave.

You don't have to be something to do something.

President Trump is quick to attack American students, immigrants, women, the LGBT community, journalists, and our international allies but he is either too weak or too ignorant to stand up to white supremacists and others who spew hatred.

As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.

Do I support a driver's license for everybody? The answer is yes.

I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.

I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.

If you're trying to understand why it is that certain things happen in Sacramento and certain things don't, at the end of the day, it comes down to the issue of incentives: We do what we're incentivized to do.

I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.

The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.

We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.

We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.

Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.

Founders Den provides the kind of collaborative and creative atmosphere to foster new ideas not only for emerging new businesses, but government as well.

The Republican Party - that was the end of the Republican Party. What Pete Wilson did with the xenophobia and the negative attitude, all this sort of anti-crime backlash.

Even if Donald Trump's successful, it's the beginning of the end if this rhetoric persists in the Republican Party.

The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.