Gavin Newsom Quotes
"Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Life, Will)
"San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: World)
"San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Health, Workers)
"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."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Home, Evening, Workers)
"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."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Leader, Artists, Film, Generations, Poets)
"San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Open, Space)
"The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Focus, Public, Safety, Security, Uncertainty)
"The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Education, Value)
"We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Quality, Development, Character)
"We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Vitality)
"Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Business, Books, Building, Company, Customer, Meeting)
"Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Benefits, Cities, Trees)
"As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Art, Public, Support, Will)
"An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Education, Performance, Children, Reward)
"Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Community, Kids, Self, Youth)
"As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Work, Disasters, Man, Will)
"Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Business, Idea, Entrepreneurs, Familiarity, World)
"As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Government, Community, Projects, Public, Support, Will)
"As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Experience, Will)
"But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Fear, Living)
"City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Government, Life, Help, Loss, Order, Property, Tragedy)
"Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Art, Reason)
"During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: History)
"Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Trees)
"As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Work, Vision, Options, Will)