Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality. — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
The arts give us our identity as a community; they also draw new people, fresh visions, and renewable economic opportunity to our… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
Make no mistake: conversion therapy is not about 'praying away the gay.' It's an emotional torture against our most innocent citizens: our children. — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
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. — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
While it was refreshing to finally see an openly gay man speak at a Republican convention, it doesn't remove the stain of selecting Mike… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller. — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules. — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
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… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
