Antonio Villaraigosa

So laying people off is not something I do lightly, it's not something I relish.

My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.

Actually, as president of the Conference of Mayors, we passed the Simpson-Bowles plan as a template, as a template, as a frame work for moving forward and the president has done the same.

Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.

I don't like to get in front of people.

I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.