Gavin Newsom

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.

Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.

Are we going to solve the issue of poverty? Absolutely not. Are we going to have an impact? I'm committed to it, and if we don't, I'll have no regrets because we're going to try everything we can.

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

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

If, in this country, a simple majority of people can start stripping away the rights of a protected class in the minority, that's a pretty alarming thing.

We do not have the right to discriminate against people.

The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.

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

A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies.

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.

We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.