Mayor Villaraigosa Quotes & Sayings

When I ran the first time in 2001, they called me 'The Latino Mayor.' By the time I left in 2013, with a 58 percent approval rating, half the people liked me, half the people didn't. I was everybody's mayor. There was never any criticism that I was just for one group. — Antonio Villaraigosa

I believe that the mayor of the most diverse city anywhere in the world has to be a uniter, has to be someone that's comfortable in every community, has to be someone that represents all of us. — Antonio Villaraigosa

I want to be known as the mayor who happens to be Latino who made a difference. I ran to make a difference. — Antonio Villaraigosa