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our school system is the best performing urban school system in the entire state of California. In less than 5 years. Because of Bennioff and the Sales Force foundation with Circle the Schools and all these other programs.
— Edwin M. LeeMayor of San Francisco (2011-2018) & First Asian-American Mayor
People find that you don't have to go around managing the maintenance of a building with a tool belt anymore, you can go around with an iPad. You've still got to operate buildings, but our buildings have to be technically oriented as we're challenging them to be greener. So, how do you go from a tool belt to an iPad?
— Edwin M. LeeMayor of San Francisco (2011-2018) & First Asian-American Mayor
If you're going to be a city of love and compassion, you're going to have to develop economics infrastructure, capital planning and job creation policies, complementing them with education. For those who feel left out, we have to bring them in, and have that conversation with every company, every worker, and fight for them to be part of the more complicated world.
— Edwin M. LeeMayor of San Francisco (2011-2018) & First Asian-American Mayor
People don't have to fear the innovation age as being victims of it. They can actually embrace it by saying 'okay, I've got to have some additional skill sets I can go back to, and maybe truck driving is not going to be the whole thing but maybe it's other mobility things so that I can actually use my background of skillsets to get involved in'.
— Edwin M. LeeMayor of San Francisco (2011-2018) & First Asian-American Mayor
San Francisco is the city of love and compassion, will always be, and will never change that. I know that's a very broad response, but I do think that's what motivates me the most in terms of the vision and feeling I have for the city.
— Edwin M. LeeMayor of San Francisco (2011-2018) & First Asian-American Mayor
Rather than politicising our cultural challenges, we have to allow people to feel comfortable about their culture and about who they are, and to accept each other as equals.
— Edwin M. LeeMayor of San Francisco (2011-2018) & First Asian-American Mayor
If you're going to be a city of love and compassion, you're going to have to develop economics infrastructure, capital planning and job creation policies, complementing them with education.
— Edwin M. LeeMayor of San Francisco (2011-2018) & First Asian-American Mayor
We believe people don't have to fear the innovation age as being victims of it. They can actually embrace it by saying 'okay, I've got to have some additional skill sets I can go back to'.
— Edwin M. LeeMayor of San Francisco (2011-2018) & First Asian-American Mayor
People who are building don't want to simply test their ideas in a microcosm, they want to be successful in the real-world, and San Francisco is an international city with real world connections.
— Edwin M. LeeMayor of San Francisco (2011-2018) & First Asian-American Mayor
San Francisco is the city of love and compassion, will always be, and will never change that.
— Edwin M. LeeMayor of San Francisco (2011-2018) & First Asian-American Mayor
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