Top 66 London Breed Quotes

While it’s absolutely important that we build housing for our low-income residents, when we are talking about opening up hundreds of sites for housing, we should be trying to build affordable housing for all of our residents struggling to pay rent. That means housing for teachers, for nurses, for janitors.

I have been a transportation leader and advocate my entire public career.

All of our students should feel safe and supported when they go to school.

If there was a street synonymous with San Francisco, it’s Market Street. It is the everyday backbone of the City, with hundreds of thousands of people traveling along it on foot, bike, bus, or streetcar. It’s where we gather to celebrate our victories and protest injustices.

Our streets should be inviting and safe so anyone can feel comfortable choosing to ride a bike, walk, or take transit, and so it is clear which space is for which mode of travel.

Walking the streets of San Francisco can be a frightening, demoralizing, even an unhealthy experience for residents and tourists alike.

We have to cut the red tape, eliminate barriers, and reduce bureaucracy – for all housing, for everyone.

Money should never be a barrier to whether or not a young person is given the opportunity to succeed.

Children who attend high-quality early care and education programs before kindergarten perform better on assessments of reading and math skills and socio-emotional development. However, since early care and education programs are so expensive, low-income families face significant barriers.

We share common values as San Franciscans: we help each other; we welcome newcomers; we innovate and learn; we focus on facts; we work together; and we find creative solutions.

In San Francisco, our businesses, healthcare services, workforce, and housing will always be Open to All.

Every student should be able to start the school year with the supplies they need, and shouldn’t feel left out if their family is unable to afford a new backpack, notebooks, and pencils.

We are committed to delivering a safe, equitable, and reliable transportation system.

Sadly, youth homelessness is an issue throughout the country.

Students should feel excited and prepared for the new school year.

To our health care workers and essential employees: Thank you for everything you are doing.

No family should feel they need to leave San Francisco to find a great public education.

Every day on our streets there are people who are facing a combination of homelessness, mental illness, and addiction. Each of these conditions is challenging alone, but when experienced at the same time it creates a downward spiral that makes it even more difficult for the person to get treated and housed.

I will fight for affordable housing for teachers, police, fire fighters, and families in all our neighborhoods.

Costly jail calls and high commissary fees have forced families to choose between paying their bills and talking to their loved ones who are serving time, adding further costs to an already difficult situation.

As a child, I walked with my friends to Rosa Parks Elementary and then to Ben Franklin Middle School. I rode Muni to Galileo High School. And thanks to amazing teachers who believed in me and supported me along the way, I was able to matriculate to another public school: the University of California at Davis.

As someone who grew up in public housing, I’ve known these conditions.

People coming out of jail need a path back into society: access to a job, a place to live, supportive services. We’ve seen what happens without it: they commit more crimes and return to jail, which is worse for everyone.

No child should be deprived the opportunity to excel.

Some consider bicycling an ‘alternative’ mode of transportation, but it should not be considered alternative. It should be an easy choice for getting around in our City, and we need to do more to make that a reality.

As investments and as an energy source, fossil fuels have nowhere to go but down.

Both San Francisco and New York are taking bold, sweeping action to reduce emissions, make our infrastructure more resilient and improve the health of our people. We are also leading the charge against those who continue to deny the existence of climate change.

Youth should have access to paid internships or jobs year-round, so they can keep developing important skills and earning income.

I want to make sure we are spending wisely and using our resources effectively to address the issues facing San Francisco, while reaching residents throughout our entire City.

I’m a fact-based leader.

San Francisco deserves to be a great bicycling city where every day is Bike to Work Day.

Technology is rapidly changing our transportation systems, and if we craft smart regulations, these changes can be for the better.

Access to quality early care and education is an important part of our efforts to make San Francisco more equitable, and ensure that every child who grows up here can thrive.

We need housing for people who are exiting homelessness, and need to make sure we’re providing housing at multiple levels of care so people can get the services they need to permanently exit homelessness and make their home in San Francisco.

Building and preserving housing, along with keeping people housed, are critical to making our city more affordable for all.

Our wisest long-term investment is not in the dirty polluting fossil fuels from the past, but in the clean energy of the future.

Since becoming Mayor, I have advocated for safer streets.

It is our responsibility to stand up for equality, fairness, and civil rights.

In my sophomore year of high school, I watched my friend Loretta leave in a U-Haul headed for Oakland. She and her mom had been tenants in a nearby apartment, forced out by rent they couldn’t afford anymore.

Subsidizing someone’s rent is much cheaper than paying for new housing, police or medical responses, or hospital or jail stays.

I have the ability and the will to lead San Francisco in building more housing. Without it, people like me who grew up in San Francisco, and people who came here for the values we embrace will simply not be able to stay.

We want to make sure that anyone facing eviction has access to high-quality legal representation.

We have so much work to do to meet the challenges of people living on our streets. But every day we are out there doing the work, finding solutions not only to help those living on our streets, but to prevent more people from ending up there in the future.

Getting around San Francisco should be convenient, safe, affordable, and sustainable.

Child care should be convenient, affordable, and available in every neighborhood.

I’ve lived in poverty.

We need to improve our public transportation and invest in physical infrastructure changes so that people can safely choose alternatives to driving like walking, riding a bike or even, yes, electric scooters.

Despite my work, I know some in politics will never support me. I see them distort my record.

When I was in college, the bell tolled for us. Just as my grandmother, the woman who had cared for me all my life, started needing me to care for her, we were told our home was being torn down, and we would need to find another place to live.

Setting San Francisco on a course to sustainability will require all of us to work in concert on a number of ambitious efforts.

By providing every student with a quality education, and the materials they need for class and to do their homework, we can help students from all backgrounds learn and thrive.

We know that all too often, homelessness and behavioral health challenges go hand in hand.

San Francisco is a beacon of hope for LGBTQ people around the world.

We can’t solve the issues of homelessness without more housing.

In San Francisco, we have long faced serious challenges in managing the crisis of homelessness on our streets.

Businesses have played an important role in advancing nondiscrimination protections across the county because they have recognized that inclusion is the right thing to do and fairness and equality are good for business.

We can’t keep limiting ourselves when it comes to housing. Affordable housing and teacher housing are too crucial to let the failed policies of the past get in the way.

As a young girl growing up in poverty, I know firsthand how much a paycheck from a summer job can make a difference.

Homelessness and behavioral health challenges affect every neighborhood in San Francisco.

San Francisco is a City for everyone and our government needs to work for all of our residents.

No matter where you come from, no matter what you decide to do in life, you can do anything you want to do.

Young people experiencing homelessness often have a difficult time accessing services, including shelter, medical care, and employment. This is due to the stigma of their housing situation, lack of knowledge of available resources, and a lack of services targeted to young people.

With commitment and the right investments, we can create a San Francisco where no one is forced, relegated, or allowed to sleep on the streets, and where no one endures addiction or mental illness on the streets without supportive and effective services.

Well, I was lucky to have people throughout my life who invested in me.

There must be real consequences for those who commit crimes in our neighborhoods.

We are fighting for an affordable, diverse community where all of us can thrive.