California Quotes

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 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.

When I finish as the host of 'Jeopardy!' I'm going to go up to Taft in central California. They have a small college there that teaches you about oil drilling.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later.

On 'Justified,' we're driving all around Southern California trying to find a location that we can call Kentucky.

That's an economic development program in the metropolitan area. If they don't see that, and you don't get these things done, then you're competing with Texas and California and Atlanta; then you really have problems.

California is beautiful to look at, but you can't be a part of it like you can in Michigan.

The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.

I'm a typical California boy.

The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did.

When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.

I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.

On my recent trip to the Mexico border, Border Patrol agents in California told me they have arrested the same coyotes 20 times, but they are not prosecuted.