Gavin Newsom Quotes

• 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.

  Gavin Newsom

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Public, Safety

• 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.

  Gavin Newsom

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Leader, Generations, Artists, Innovators

• 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.

  Gavin Newsom

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Natural, Human, Disasters

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

  Gavin Newsom

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Communities, Ecological, Sustainable

• 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

  Gavin Newsom

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Neighborhoods

• 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.

  Gavin Newsom

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Pressure, Company

• As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy.

  Gavin Newsom

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Government, Community

• As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional.

  Gavin Newsom

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Arts, Commission, Professional, Committee

• 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.

  Gavin Newsom

  Topics in Children, Education

  Tags in Opportunities

• As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options.

  Gavin Newsom

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Excellent, Housing, Transportation

• Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.

  Gavin Newsom

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Entrepreneurs, Idea

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

  Gavin Newsom

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Beautiful, City, World

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

  Gavin Newsom

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Living

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

  Gavin Newsom

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Challange, Compensation

• Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.

  Gavin Newsom

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tremendous, Benefit

• 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.

  Gavin Newsom

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Community, Involvement

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

  Gavin Newsom

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Economic

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

  Gavin Newsom

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Self

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

   

  Gavin Newsom

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Communities

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

  Gavin Newsom

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cultural, Tourism

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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