92 Quotes by Antonio Villaraigosa

For Los Angeles, it's an opportunity for us to showcase that you can come from every corner of the earth and live together in harmony and peace and make it in America,

It's going to be a very close election. You won't hear me talk about how we have it in the bag. I think turnout is going to be the key, and I expect turnout is going to be great.

I'm unabashedly a progressive, but I'm not a knee-jerk, either,

I had nothing in my resume to prepare me for this.

Hosting the Games would be not only great for Los Angeles and the nation, but also a world community that is searching for common ground,

Chief Bratton and I are committed to providing a police department that's transparent, accountable and inclusive, ... The days of closed-door internal investigations that do little to advance the public's confidence are over. With today's actions, the LAPD is opening up itself to review by its peers in the law enforcement community and actively seeking to improve its own operations.

Great cities grow and prosper together, ... But for far too long, neighborhoods in need all across Los Angeles have been left behind. My appointees to the CRA commission bring the breadth and depth of experience needed to aggressively move important projects forward to revitalize our neighborhoods, bringing back economic development, jobs and housing.

These kids right here, they're going to be mayors and governors and lawyers and artists and social workers and actors. And you're going to reach for the stars, right? You're going to follow your dreams, right?

The events around Hurricane Katrina, the images, showed America a very dark underbelly of race and class, and all of us should be concerned by what we saw there, ... But in many ways, what we saw there, you could easily see here in the city of Los Angeles, and in Chicago and New York.