Future
There had been speculation that Congressman Xavier Becerra was to be appointed to serve in the Obama administration as the United States Trade Representative. Garcetti, whose district overlaps Becerra's, was mentioned as a possible front-runner for the congressional seat. However, Becerra indicated that he would not accept the position in Obama's cabinet. Garcetti declared his candidacy for Mayor of Los Angeles on September 8, 2011.
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Famous quotes containing the word future:
“We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“There are many of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree that we are becoming culinary nitwits, dependent upon fast foods and mass kitchens and megavitamins for our basically rotten nourishment.”
—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)
“The ellipse is as aimless as that,
Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear
In our present. Its flexing is its account,
Return to the point of no return.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)