California Quotes

California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.

I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we're going to balance that without raising taxes on the people of the state of New Jersey.

Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard, to do business.

I left Chicago many years ago to move to California. You can't help but live a healthy lifestyle here if you want to fit in. I find myself eating chicken and salad and chicken and salad and salad and chicken, like a monk.

Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.

When California provides the same value as other locations, I'd gladly shoot all my pictures here.

Obviously the Senate is a federal office, but to get California's economy moving again we need to do some things in the federal arena.

We've tried to get as much supply into California as we can.

No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I'm going to be who I am.

This union has been divided in like a civil war - brother against brother - sister against sister. And I'm pulling it together. We've already seen evidence of that in New York, in Pennsylvania, in California. The first thing is we have to get on the same page. We have to be united in one cause.

It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.

We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.

My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008.

California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

I heard people saying they were going to become millionaires by the time they were 25 - that's gross and obnoxious, but in California it's looked on as an asset.

It's not like I had big dreams to go to California and become an actor. I loved doing my shows at school and community theater, and I probably would have settled in New York because it was closer. I was going to go to NYU.

I'm a typical California boy.

I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter.

I'm from California, but my father, who passed away when I was young, was from Newark. When I was kid, we would go back east and catch Yankees games. His side of the family are big Yankees fans. But, the real connection came in '97 when I moved to New York and became friends with the team.

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.

I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.

Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.

Let me share some facts with you about the law in most of our country. California is in many ways a little different from the rest of the world, and California has better gun laws than many states, although California's need to be improved.