Gavin Newsom Quotes

• We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco’s cultural vitality.

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  Tags in City, Cultural, Vitality

• We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.

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  Tags in Development, Surrounding, Neighborhood

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

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  Topics in Education

  Tags in Arts

• The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.

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  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Public, Safety

• The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.

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  Tags in Public, Security, Safety

• Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.

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  Tags in Tremendous, Benefit

• San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.

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  Tags in Communities, Ecological, Sustainable

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Leader, Generations, Artists, Innovators

• 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

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  Tags in Self, Neighborhoods

• San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.

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  Topics in Business

  Tags in Challange, Compensation

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

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  Tags in Beautiful, City, World

• Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Economic

• 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.

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  Tags in Self, Pressure, Company

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Community, Involvement

• Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.

   

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Communities

• During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.

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  Topics in History

  Tags in Economic

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

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  Tags in Cultural, Tourism

• 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.

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  Tags in City, Government, Emergency

• But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear.

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  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Living

• As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.

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  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Self

Gavin Newsom (26)

Birth:	10th October, 1967
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Gavin Christopher Newsom is an American politician. He is the 49th and current Lieutenant Governor of California, after being elected in 2010.In 2003, he was elected the 42nd Mayor of San Francisco, the city's youngest in 100 years. Newsom was re-elected in 2007 with 72 percent of the vote. In 2010, a Samepoint study named Newsom the Most Social Mayor in America's largest 100 cities.

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