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 people that are serving you gas, the people that are in your restaurants serving you, the firefighters, and police officers are members of the gay and lesbian community. They're members of our broader community.
We must continue to step in and stand up to resist reckless rhetoric and actions in a peaceful and forceful manner.
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.
The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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.
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.
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.
The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
If you're trying to understand why it is that certain things happen in Sacramento and certain things don't, at the end of the day, it comes down to the issue of incentives: We do what we're incentivized to do.
California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
I have differences of opinion within my own family, an Irish Catholic family. So, I do respect those that disagree.
It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.
Make no mistake: conversion therapy is not about 'praying away the gay.' It's an emotional torture against our most innocent citizens: our children.
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.
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.
I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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.
Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.
These Millennials are volunteering more; they're smarter than ever.