I won't be a perfect mayor, but I will be the mayor of a great city. — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
Los Angeles is the strongest defender of immigrants perhaps of any city in this country. — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
I don't want to bring a European city or an east-coast city to the West Coast. — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
I'm an average American. As I joke, I'm the average Mexican American Jewish Italian mayor of the most diverse city in the… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
I think our communication strategy has been very disciplined as being a back-to-basics mayor and about focusing on making City Hall work… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
If a sanctuary city means that our police department does not enforce federal immigration laws, then we are one. But declaring yourself… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
The problem with the Democratic Party is, we're like, 'If we just get another presidential candidate in there, everything will be OK.'… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
People will give you the responsibility, even the authority, to go after the big things, the visionary things, the reaching for incredible… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
Mayors in any city are pretty non-partisan people where it's problem solvers. — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
My main job and my overwhelming job starts with my family, my street, my neighborhood, and my city. — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
L.A. is a great city to get lost in. The best thing to do is to drive in any direction, find a… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
We're looking to rebrand L.A. Not in some sort of radical way, but we've forgotten to sell this city, internationally and nationally...… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
I think it's really important to talk education, to talk infrastructure, to talk good jobs and the future of work. — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
I have a piano in my office, and sometimes during meetings, I'll sit down and goof on the keyboard a little bit. — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
I don't spend much time on the computer at all, so I do most of my email on my phone if I do any… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
On my mom's side, the Jewish side of the family, I come from a family of musicians who are pianists, so I've always loved… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
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… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
I'm a typical mutt American. I have an Italian last name. Half-Mexican, half-Jewish. — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
Campaigns are these moments of suspended animation where people usually learn how to be friends afterward. — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
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… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
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… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
In presidential elections, I think people focus way too much on ideology. — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
Most people will be primarily getting into autonomous vehicles if we look 20, 30 years out. If we mandate that autonomous vehicles have to… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
