The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street. — 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 community. — 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
