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My wife and I are foster parents.
I'm progressive, and I'm practical.
I prioritize my daughter and my wife.
I don't live life with a ton of regrets.
No sane person would run for president, right?
I always thought Grover Cleveland was from Cleveland.
I've always said we need to build resilience locally.
There are two Americas: Washington and the rest of us.
Pete Buttigieg is one of my closest friends as a mayor.
Mayors are accountable. Local governments are accountable.
Mayors are really good at dealing with things practically.
The struggle of African Americans is everybody's struggle.
I'll never stop listening to police officers over politicians.
I won't be a perfect mayor, but I will be the mayor of a great city.
In presidential elections, I think people focus way too much on ideology.
Don't run for mayor if you don't want to basically be working all the time.
Mayors in any city are pretty non-partisan people where it's problem solvers.
I don't want to bring a European city or an east-coast city to the West Coast.
Aggressive government spending during the Great Recession was absolutely necessary.
Tax cuts that actually go to working-class, middle-class people, I'm not opposed to.
I'm a typical mutt American. I have an Italian last name. Half-Mexican, half-Jewish.
Los Angeles is the strongest defender of immigrants perhaps of any city in this country.
In Washington, you have imaginary problems, and they can't even solve the imaginary problems.
There's no question we need more housing, and we have to fight for that throughout California.
Enthusiasm — real grassroots enthusiasm — trumps money, trumps endorsements, trumps everything.
When it comes to public safety, I listen to police chiefs and cops, not to a cable-news station.
Los Angeles has all the ingredients of success... but we need to start with our education system.
My main job and my overwhelming job starts with my family, my street, my neighborhood, and my city.
If you can speak Spanish, then you can have a stronger connection with the residents of Los Angeles.
We need a pro-worker trade approach that puts American jobs - not corporate profits - front and center.
I'm the grandson of immigrants who came across rivers and oceans to get here, some without documentation.
The questions that consume me, that keep me up at night, are the people that are sleeping on the streets.
Campaigns are these moments of suspended animation where people usually learn how to be friends afterward.
Cory Booker I've known since 1993. We used to be part of the L'Chaim Society at Oxford University together.
There are two rules in politics. They say never ever be pictured with a drink in your hand, and never swear.
I have a piano in my office, and sometimes during meetings, I'll sit down and goof on the keyboard a little bit.
I think it's really important to talk education, to talk infrastructure, to talk good jobs and the future of work.
It sure would be nice to have a Washington that was there for us, but most help has always been local and regional.
I think everyone has the impression that L.A. is Hollywood and fast lives. That couldn't be further from the truth.
What I think the average person wants is not a fight; they want to see something move forward in their own neighborhood.
I lived in Burma for a couple of summers in the '90s, working with the democratic resistance that had fled to the jungles.
My grandfather was an undocumented immigrant. My great-grandmother, my bisabuela, carried him over the border in her arms.
I think poverty is the biggest challenge for Los Angeles and for many of our cities that have come back from the recession.
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.
Homelessness is like public education - something that for far too long we haven't put the resources or love or attention to.
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.
I think it is time for a radical federalism in this country, where people trust innovation coming from the local level and ramp that up.
Withdrawing federal funds to prevent radiological or biological terrorist attack - that doesn't just hurt Los Angeles: that hurts America.
If you want to cut crime, if you want to end homelessness, you have to deal with sexual violence, sexual harassment, and domestic violence.
Environment, homelessness, infrastructure and immigration - I'm very focused on all four, which are critical to the success of Los Angeles.