A biography for Gavin Newsomhasn’t been written yet.
“But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear.”
“It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.”
“Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.”
“Are we going to solve the issue of poverty? Absolutely not. Are we going to have an impact? I'm committed to it, and if we don't, I'll have no regrets because we're going to try everything we can.”
“San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.”
“The Republican Party - that was the end of the Republican Party. What Pete Wilson did with the xenophobia and the negative attitude, all this sort of anti-crime backlash.”
“Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.”
“I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.”
“Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.”
“Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation.”
“We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.”
“I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.”
“My mother - it's not one of those waxing-poetic kind of things - she literally worked two or three jobs most of her life. So I personally experienced that, even though I had these great friends and associations who had unlimited amounts of money. That juxtaposition was an interesting one.”
“The whole idea that the Constitution of the United States would be used to advance a political agenda is absurd.”
“We need to allow people to bypass government... to look to themselves for solving problems rather than asking the government to do things for them.”
“You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.”
“San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening.”
“If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.”
“I'll be kicked out before I rust out.”
“Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.”