"It's disgusting. There are kids waking up today in California with this news thinking that their governor hates them, and rightly so."
"Look, every mayor's going to tell you that they need more resources. What we've seen that's been successful is the things that I talked about before, but we've also I think done a lot with diversion a..."
"We've got to make sure that we use every tool in our toolkit. And it's -- soft power is more, much more effective than the hard power of law enforcement for this particular problem."
"I think we've made significant progress over the last few days. But I want to deal done this weekend. Our kids need back -- be back in school, schools are safe."
"This is an unnecessary and illegal work stoppage. And I've drawn the line, we are not going to remote for the whole system. It's completely unnecessary."
"I get that people are scared. This Omicron surge is real. And we're doing everything that we can across our city to mitigate it."
"Remote learning, for any period of time is off the table from a system wide standpoint."
"Unfortunately, some people like to politicize the pandemic. And that's not just something that happens on one side of the political divide."
"I'm determined. I'm resolute, I've said enough is enough. And we're going to get our kids back to in-person learning."
"The White House says they've been in touch with both you and the governor to quote, assess your needs."
"We're in a good, I think, a place with both our Governor and the White House."
"I think, look, at the very beginning it was just getting out the basic information about the various clinical trials, the results of the effectiveness."