Zev Yaroslavsky - Quotations

Quotations

• "The average person walking into City Hall is behind the eight ball before he ever gets to the first step."

• "Let's have a little vision. What does Westwood Village need? Another McDonald's? Pioneer Chicken? What this town needs is a little vision."

• In response to news media organizations' threat to sue over a new city tax: "Let them take us to court. . . . Sue! Sue!"

• "I've always had the propensity to pork up. . . . but when I finally got a chronic disease, it became an issue of life or death."

• "I let the facts dictate the outcome; I don't let the emotion dictate the outcome."