Karen Bass: “I have made enough progress to merit another term leading a city of 3.8 million people.”

“It’s very hard to say that you want to be mayor of this city, and you’ve never heard of Rodney King.”

“By the way, from some of those white people, young white people, I’ve been shocked at the racial insensitivity, shall I say, shocked.” Bass said that there were “very specific examples”, and she offered one.

“I am so profoundly sorry that I was not in my city when my city needed me.”

“I sure as heck wouldn’t have gone.”