Quotes from Eric Garcetti

There's no question we need more housing, and we have to fight for that throughout California.

I'll never stop listening to police officers over politicians.

I'm the grandson of immigrants who came across rivers and oceans to get here, some without documentation.

You see as mayors and local officials our jobs are designed so we have more in common with our constituents than Washington politicians can ever have.

I think our communication strategy has been very disciplined as being a back-to-basics mayor and about focusing on making City Hall work and jumpstarting our economy.

The questions that consume me, that keep me up at night, are the people that are sleeping on the streets.

L.A. is a great city to get lost in. The best thing to do is to drive in any direction, find a strip mall, and go from one store to the next. I guarantee you will see a collision of cultures you never imagined.

If you can speak Spanish, then you can have a stronger connection with the residents of Los Angeles.

Los Angeles is the strongest defender of immigrants perhaps of any city in this country.

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.

The struggle of African Americans is everybody's struggle.

The travel that I've spent around the country, I always come back with ideas for L.A. and vice versa: My experiences in L.A. give me an immediacy to issues that sometimes people in Washington think about but aren't experiencing every day.

As mayor, I've traveled to China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and Mexico to meet with heads of state and business leaders to promote trade with L.A. companies and through L.A.'s seaports and airports - because that generates L.A. jobs.

It is the responsibility, I think, of anybody in elected office to look for opportunities to help serve their people.

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 at all.

People will give you the responsibility, even the authority, to go after the big things, the visionary things, the reaching for incredible opportunities, if they trust that you're running a city well. And if you don't run a city well, conversely, you can't do the big things.