We have to get to a place in the city where our young officers understand that respectful, constitutional engagement with the community is their most powerful tool.

I gotta be me. I'm going to go to ball games, because that's what I do. I'm going to go to live music shows, because I love live music.

I think that the people who come from communities like me as an African-American woman, as a member of the LGBT community, we haven't sat in the corners of power.

Police can't be successful if they're not viewed as legitimate by the community, and a community will not be safe if the police are not engaged in a respectful, constitutional partnership with the community.

Throughout college and law school, as well as in my career as a lawyer and police reform advocate, I've faced various toxic combinations of racism, sexism, and homophobia.

Let's stand together, stick together, and work together for justice of every description. Racial justice. Gender justice. Immigrant justice. Economic justice. Environmental justice.

Taxes and fees in Chicago and Cook County are forcing low-income families like the one I grew up in out of this city. It's clear we can't keep treating low-income and middle-class families like an ATM machine with no limit.

Make no mistake about it: Change is hard, but change is necessary.

We cannot create the perception that if you're rich or famous or both that you got one set of justice - and for everybody else it's something much harsher. That won't do and we need to make sure that we have a criminal justice system that has integrity.

I can't look into the crystal ball. All I can do is the here and now.

I ask people to not attribute what I've done - my success and how hard I've worked - to not reduce that or attribute that to someone else.

No matter where you come from, no matter what you decide to do in life, you can do anything you want to do.

Never let your circumstances determine your outcome in life.

Child care should be convenient, affordable, and available in every neighborhood.

Access to quality early care and education is an important part of our efforts to make San Francisco more equitable, and ensure that every child who grows up here can thrive.

Early care and education helps children build the skills they need for success in kindergarten and can help close the achievement gap.

We know that all too often, homelessness and behavioral health challenges go hand in hand.

We need housing for people who are exiting homelessness, and need to make sure we're providing housing at multiple levels of care so people can get the services they need to permanently exit homelessness and make their home in San Francisco.

Since becoming Mayor, I have advocated for safer streets.

Homelessness and behavioral health challenges affect every neighborhood in San Francisco.

We are committed to delivering a safe, equitable, and reliable transportation system.

Getting around San Francisco should be convenient, safe, affordable, and sustainable.

Sadly, youth homelessness is an issue throughout the country.

In San Francisco, we have long faced serious challenges in managing the crisis of homelessness on our streets.