Eric Garcetti Quotes

what I love about city government is that the citizens can create whatever kind of city they're willing to build.

The mayoral mentality is incredibly valuable. I don't want to lose that.

Mayors are known to be problem-solvers.

When you look at a mayor, Americans see mayors favorably. We are at the front line of what Americans are dealing with every day.

Mayors are accountable. Local governments are accountable.

Our communities are strong because local leaders and active citizens listen and learn from the people they serve.

It is one of the great goals of my administration to invigorate the spirit of involvement and citizenship. We will encourage faith-based and community programs without changing their mission.

The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born free.

We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.

From 1966 to 1970 I served as Chairman of the New Haven City Plan Commission.

I didn't run for mayor because everything was going great in Baltimore in 1999.

Mayors are leaders, doers. We get things done, and we are moving America's cities forward.

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.

I care about making New York better.

Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations.

In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.

As soon as I got out of law school, I went to inner city Newark, New Jersey, to become a housing rights lawyer, because people fought for my housing rights, I was going to pay it forward by fighting for others.

Having been a mayor, we prioritized based on where we want our city and our country to go.

The work of being a citizen is hard and annoying, but it can pay off.

The people who care the most about the folks in your community are living in the community. They don't live in Washington, D.C.

The background of a mayor of a city of any size is a background of somebody who on one hand is an executive and on the other hand is very close to the ground.

Being the mayor of the third largest city in the country, that's humbling, but it also gives me incredible hope.

I want to make a city that can run smoothly with anyone in charge, even without a mayor in place.

City of Los Angeles is my home, and it is my duty to lead by example, contribute all that I can, and help make the world a better place with the tools and resources available to me.

It is our social responsibility as citizens of India to help fulfil Gandhiji's vision of Clean India, by his 150th birth anniversary in 2019.