Michelle Wu Quotes

Michelle Wu

Profession : Politician

Birth : January 14, 1985

We need to see more resources in the combination of public safety and public health but we have to use our dollars wisely.

Michelle Wu

During natural disasters or emergencies, the most resilient communities - places that suffer the fewest casualties and rebuild more quickly - are not the wealthiest neighborhoods or ones that have spent the most on physical infrastructure, but rather the communities with the strongest social infrastructure.

Michelle Wu

Entrepreneurs are resourceful, resilient, and make such a difference in anchoring our neighborhoods.

Michelle Wu

In city government, it's about getting things done, not being judged on a scorecard of whether you said yes or no on a certain thing.

Michelle Wu

When we fall short of meeting community needs - for stable housing, safe streets, open space, reliable transportation, food access, a healthy environment - everyone faces greater vulnerability.

Michelle Wu

Everything that I do is shaped by the experiences that I've had with my family and that I've heard in families all across the city who share the same struggles and dreams.

Michelle Wu

We can solve the car-bike conflict, and the solution unlocks a brighter, more inclusive economic and environmental future for Boston.

Michelle Wu

When I first ran for City Council in 2013, I was told over and over again that I would likely lose, and for reasons beyond my control: I was too young, not born in Boston, Asian American, female.

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Mobilize your friends and neighbors to understand that your day-to-day involvement with local government matters far more than a referendum on the White House every four years.

Michelle Wu

Food justice must be incorporated into the city's long term and big picture planning efforts.

Michelle Wu

Free public transportation is the single biggest step we could take toward economic mobility, racial equity, and climate justice.

Michelle Wu

Raising the cost of public transit would burden residents who can least afford transportation alternatives and punish commuters who are doing the most to ease traffic and improve air quality.

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To reverse the decline of our public transit system and end the transportation disparities that divide our city and region, we must channel calls for change into changed governance.

Michelle Wu

I put my name out there and ran for public service because I want more inclusion, diversity, and opportunity... I will fight for those values.

Michelle Wu

The strengths of our city historically have been connected to being a home for residents from all backgrounds: immigrant residents, residents who represent a diversity of race and economic situations and perspectives. And if we don't address our housing crisis, and the dramatically rising cost of living, we will lose that core of our city.

Michelle Wu

We, through city government, can add protections and regulations and have policy conversations about so many aspects of what affects our residents' daily lives.

Michelle Wu

We should be demilitarizing the Boston police in weapons and tactics, and interactions with community. We should be reining in ballooning overtime for the police- a part of the city budget that has been eating into other necessary investments.

Michelle Wu

We should be increasing our investment in the infrastructure for public safety and public health. But when we talk about those as two distinct and separate departments or budgetary items, we're missing out on the ways in which we should be most effectively using our resources and serving our residents.

Michelle Wu

We do the big things by getting the little things right for our communities.

Michelle Wu

When I'm by myself and get some quiet - when the kids are doing something else - I spend time playing piano.

Michelle Wu