Eric Garcetti Quotes

It's my job as governor to set a vision.

When you're the CEO, you take responsibility.

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.

I have to give him and I have to have 100 percent of his confidence…. If I do not have his confidence, someone else should be chief of staff.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

I strongly believe in the principle of accountability and responsibility. It is the foundation of leadership.

All power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise.

All empire is no more than power in trust.

Lack of accountability in any decision making structure is not tolerable.

Principles without organization may lose, but organization without principles may often win.

I'm really more of an executive.

I'm surprised sometimes at the responsibilities you have as a director.

Being mayor is about offering a vision for the city, putting the right people in the right place, and executing that vision.

When you lead, you have to lead from the front.

As the director, you are the organiser who has to have all the answers. You are the person with maximum clarity.

I just want to do a good job as mayor.

Taking power is fine. But what do you do when you are in power?

People elect me to make sure the chief of police is the right chief of police. They elect me to make sure I have the right person running the airport.

How do you govern by captaining the ship? How do you win without the trust of the crew?

I've been mayor for five years. I've led a city. And directed a police department. I know how to use resources.

All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

People hand over the power to you withimmense faith. It's your job to ensure tough implementation of laws.

It is time for a leader who will lead.