Kevin Faulconer

While San Diego is continuing to produce world-class businesses that are changing lives with breakthroughs like mapping the human genome, we should also use innovation and technology to map a better future for our children.

We have a great, positive relationship with Mexico. The Tijuana mayor crosses into San Diego, we talk all the time and vice verses. It's about neighbors working together, and that's my very clear message about a bi-national region that works. That's a competitive advantage.

You should govern not by partisanship, but by leadership.

No one is born believing in harmful stereotypes. They are learned over time. The good news is they can be unlearned.

Striving for equality and working together with people different from us is what America is all about, because beneath our differences we are bound by a common humanity we all share.

Striving for equality, celebrating our diversity, pushing for minority representation, and being proud of what makes us unique is what California is all about. But let us never allow our differences to blind us to the common humanity we all share.

I'm proud of our relationship with our neighbors right next door in Mexico. I don't talk about building walls, I talk about building bridges and increasing that communication, increasing that flow, and that's really what defines our border region in San Diego.

In San Diego we have a chance to be the dominant hub for nanotech, biotech, life sciences.