Quotes from Eric Garcetti

I think it's really important to talk education, to talk infrastructure, to talk good jobs and the future of work.

When it comes to public safety, I listen to police chiefs and cops, not to a cable-news station.

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 be about a careful plot and plan.

I recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. And I have always recognized Jerusalem as the capital of the independent, fully sovereign Palestinian state that we all want to emerge from negotiations toward a true two-state solution.

I'm in what feels like a pretty transparent fishbowl as mayor. People see you at the market, people see you at the diner, people see you wherever you are, talk to you. You don't shave, they're taking selfies of you. You come back from your jog, they're talking to you.

Latinos are not monochromatic. You know, they trace their ancestry back to South America, to Central America, to Mexico, like in my family, and the Caribbean. And it's - we're a very diverse group. And we care about a lot more than just immigration, though we're passionate about having sensible immigration policies that don't go after our families.

Most people will be primarily getting into autonomous vehicles if we look 20, 30 years out. If we mandate that autonomous vehicles have to be electric, then we will move people into electric vehicles.

Mayors in any city are pretty non-partisan people where it's problem solvers.

In Washington, you have imaginary problems, and they can't even solve the imaginary problems.

I've always said we need to build resilience locally.

You don't have to be Latino to speak powerfully about how important it is to have a police department that cares for our immigrant communities.

My wife and I are foster parents.