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" As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools. "

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" Los Angeles is one of the four cultural capitals of the world, but we don't attract as many cultural tourists as New York, London or Paris. I want to change that. "

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" Anything I do, I spend a lot of time. I do it with passion and intensity. I want to be in charge. "

" I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers. "

" If you ask why I do what I do - I want to make a difference. I don't just want to maintain the status quo. I want to help people, to work with institutions or create ones when they don't exist. "

" Oprah Winfrey's global influence is unparalleled. Not only has her generosity and firm belief that education is the key to a better life benefited countless women and children around the world, but her example has also inspired millions of people to give back in ways big and small. "

" I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center. "

" The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school. "

" People don't know I've got a deep social conscience. I'm a child of the Depression, born in 1933. My parents were very liberal in their social views. "

" The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps. "

" It's critical that states improve how teachers are trained, recruited, evaluated, compensated, advanced, and retained. "

" Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it. "

" If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate. "

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" I've become convinced that Los Angeles is going to become the next contemporary art capital - no other city has more contemporary gallery space than Los Angeles. We've come into our own, finally. "

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" School boards are, for the most part,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for political office, or well-meaning parents who represent an ethnic group or geography, or have some other narrow interests. Few people on them understand what governance is about. "

" Managers are responsible for setting workplace policies under which teachers can succeed. Managers are responsible for negotiating contracts that create the conditions under which teachers can succeed. "

" Being a Midwesterner, I know that many of the middle-class manufacturing jobs that had been at the heart of our economy are either gone or going, and they're not coming back. "

" You always learn lessons in business. "

" You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school. "

" It's hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art. "

" The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it. "

" I don't think it makes any sense for an individual to invest in common stocks unless they know the company, work at the company, and so on. "

" I think the opera is one of the great cultural jewels of Los Angeles. "

" Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre, but will they send their stuff to Memphis? No. "

" People would rather have art or gold instead of paper money. "

" I don't like to spend time in endless meetings talking about stuff that isn't going to get anything done. I have meetings, but they're short, prompt and to the point. "

" The unions no longer control the education agenda of the Democratic Party. "

" I believe in two things: One, Andrew Carnegie said, 'He who dies with wealth dies in shame.' And someone once said, 'He who gives while he lives also knows where it goes.' "

" My family and I have been blessed with good fortune in the world of business. We've created quite a net worth. My children, two boys, have more money than they will ever need, and they aren't empire builders. "

" If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts. "

" I can't think of another enterprise other than being a homeowner that can't have its debt restructured in bankruptcy. Corporations can but a homeowner can't? Now with securitization the homeowner can't go to the owner of the loan and work things out. "

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