Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Starr King

I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.

Bruce Dern

I always made a living as an actor when I came to California. I never had to do anything else.

Tyrone Willingham

We have quite a few players from California so it makes it easier for their families to get there and see them play,

The fact that natural gas prices are competitive in California has to do with the lasting effects of the California energy crisis, which has continued to keep electrical prices high.

Do what we know is in our hearts, ... Make sure all California families will have the same protection under the law.

E. P. Thompson

Currently there is no set of circumstances that would call for California to declare a state of emergency.

Emissions of ozone-forming pollutants are in significant decline. Ozone pollution in 2005 was much, much lower than in years past. As a result, the last two years have been record low ozone years in California and also throughout the United States.

Due to family reasons, I'm pretty much tied to Southern California for the foreseeable future. We can't move up there. It only makes sense to pass it on to somebody else.

Henry Miller

Big Sur is the California that men dreamed of years ago, this is the Pacific that Balboa looked at from the Peak of Darien, this is the face of the earth as the Creator intended it to look

Jay McKee

To do it in Southern California would be much more costly. You definitely get more for your money in Phoenix.

Every day between today and the special election, it's about what is (Schwarzenegger) doing to get the reforms. California is a big state, and the governor has to govern all of it.

Every citizen of the state of California should be prepared for 72 hours to be self-sufficient.

As the national economy gets better, California will get better, and some of its problems will be less acute.

As the numbers of Japanese in California increased, there were increasing calls for Japanese to be excluded, as the Chinese had been excluded in 1882 with the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Chris Lehane

Core Democratic constituencies will show up, and the heart and soul of the core Democratic constituencies in California is labor.

Mathew Staver

Today's ruling underscores the importance of amending California's constitution to preserve marriage as one man and one woman. The people of California will not put up with such nonsense.

Today's ruling is a victory for California consumers over insurers' brazen effort to undo Proposition 103 in Sacramento, which would have led to more uninsured drivers and made it harder for people who need insurance to get it.

We are on a more steady growth rate. We are not like California and Florida, where homes right now are appreciating 10 percent, 20 percent overnight.

We are very excited to be a growing part of the California community. We are creating new jobs and helping working families to save money, and that's worth celebrating with Californians who have continued to be a part of that effort.

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.

Water efficiency, recycling, and other local supplies will help California flourish in a drier future.

The other neat thing about this is that we're connecting Mojave Spaceport to California City.

We will be the highest, outside of California and, maybe, Hawaii.

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.

Tom McClintock

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You generally think of California being perfect weather. It's been pretty wacky this week.

felt it was very important to let the people of California know this governor plans to be around for the long haul.

There's something about the California culture that doesn't put an emphasis on politics. There are lots of other things to do, lots of distractions.

Ross MacDonald

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