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" You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger champion of high-speed rail than me when the bond went to voters. I believed in it. "

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" I'm sick and tired of politics and politicians as usual. "

" If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust. "

" At the end of the day, there's not a day that goes by without a mass shooting. "

" The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California. "

" Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting. "

" Do what you think is right, because one damn thing is an absolute, certainly: We come and go. Politicians are a dime a dozen. "

" There is nothing worse than a politician that gets defensive and starts attacking the media - and it always looks bad for the politician, because you sign up for this. You live by the sword, you die by the sword. "

" The question for politicians here is fundamental: You can read the polls, or you can change the polls. Stand up on the things you believe in. "

" 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. "

" Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have differences of opinion within my own family, an Irish Catholic family. So, I do respect those that disagree. "

" San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate. "

" Make no mistake: conversion therapy is not about 'praying away the gay.' It's an emotional torture against our most innocent citizens: our children. "

" You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name. "

" We must continue to step in and stand up to resist reckless rhetoric and actions in a peaceful and forceful manner. "

" I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views. "

" You need to let go of your fear and anxiety of being judged by others. "

" The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in. "

" I don't know many better training grounds than being mayor of San Francisco - those were pretty intense years in terms of reporting and scrutiny. "