Famous Quotes & Sayings

The California Supreme Court has reviewed and denied no less than seven state habeas corpus petitions, two in the last week.

The California Solar Initiative is the largest solar program in the country, and I hope it will be a model for other states.

The California market is the No. 1 source of customers. Anything that can be done to make the trip easier is something we wholeheartedly endorse.

The California horse is going to be tough. We'll just have to try to run him down.

Jim Brickman

As I was getting older, my songwriting changed, so I moved to California because I wanted to be surrounded by the opportunity in and around it and to meet the right people.

As many legislators have pointed out, what's good for California is not necessarily good for Pennsylvania.

As one of only three California representatives on the Appropriations Committee, Congressman Doolittle frequently supports well-deserving projects throughout the state.

That's why we have a Constitution, to make sure nobody's fundamental rights are trampled because of the latest public opinion poll. Whether or not Gov. Schwarzenegger fulfills his promise to be a governor for all the people of California by signing this bill, we will continue to work within the judicial system until same-sex couples in California have full equality.

This will be mostly a Southern California event. It is still a very wet storm. It is still a very dangerous storm.

What I wanted them to know is that what was going on in California in 1968 was happening here in Texas, too, at the same time. What a film like this does, is tell our youth what their parents did to make things better for them.

Bernie Sanders

I'm very proud that the state of Vermont banned fracking. I hope communities all over California, and all over America do the same.

TV is the way of taking this small-town festival in California and sharing it with the world.

David Healy

These are vehicles on the market mainly because of the insanity of regulators in states like California that are worried about emissions standards,

The rights LGBT Californians will enjoy in 2006 are stronger than they have ever been. As a result of these new laws, millions of LGBT people in California will now have legal protections that they lacked in the past, making California stronger as a result.

Ross MacDonald

There's nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure

Dick Cheney

What's happening in California today is they've taken the route of saying all we have to do is conserve, ... And today they've got rolling blackouts because they don't have enough electricity.

With limits on the rights of victims of medical negligence, insurance companies spend less money on patients and more money on insurance company lawyers, but insurers do not lower rates for doctors. Lawmakers looking to California as a model for malpractice insurance reform must understand that regulation worked and liability caps did not.

We are trying to manage the picture here today, but we've come to the end of the road here as far as supply within California and out-of-state resources go.

Mickey Rourke

I'm the worst surfer in California. My balance is off from boxing.

Karl Marx

Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it.

Kamala Harris

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

Jay Leno

Gray Davis got some good news this week: the Clintons are out here in California campaigning for him. Actually, Hillary is campaigning for Davis, Bill is out here for Larry Flynt.

Jay Leno

Governor Gray Davis has asked the California state Supreme Court to delay the October recall vote because he says that's not enough time to put on a fair election. Hey, let me tell you something. If we didn't need a fair election to pick the president of the United States, we don't need a fair election to pick the governor of California.

Jay Leno

There was also talk of bringing Al Gore to California to help out, but there was concern that Gray Davis and Al Gore in the same state would cause some kind of rolling personality blackout.

Jay Leno

I love all these politicians, they all say the same thing - 'We'll give California back to the people.' Yeah, great, now that it's not worth anything, they want to give it back to us.

Jay Leno

As if this whole thing isn't confusing enough, election officials announced this week that the alphabet on the ballot will begin with the letter R, then W, then Q. You know, even Sesame Street is laughing at California now.

Jay Leno

As you may have heard, former President Bill Clinton says he's coming here to California to help Governor Gray Davis in his recall election campaign. Which is ironic, isn't it? When Clinton was president, he couldn't recall anything.

Carly Fiorina

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

Janeane Garofalo

Pedestrian's rights - because we live in California, I've got to address this issue. I don't know where on the fence I am about that. I suppose if I'm walking, I'm all for it, but if I'm driving, that's a whole other can of worms.

Janet Fitch

No matter where I was, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.

Joseph Brodsky

When Thomas Mann arrived in California from Germany, they asked him about German literature. And he said, 'German literature is where I am.' It's really a bit grand, but if a German can afford it, I can afford it.

Mike Huckabee

Five people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of California and Congress combined. And bigger than God. May He forgive us all.

Noam Chomsky

California is maybe the richest place in the world. They're destroying the best public education system in the world.