California Quotes

I'm a free market person, a free trader. But if we had a market in California, there would be competition.

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

The California cemeteries make dying sound so attractive it's a real effort to keep breathing.

... Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, two publications read more faithfully in Hollywood than the Koran is in Mecca.

Washington is dangerously positioned between two Canadas, Canada Canada and California's Canada, Oregon.

California is an Italy without its art.

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.

The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal judges.

The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, 'Four more vowels, four more vowels.

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.

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

She goes to Frederick's of Hollywood at the mall and purchases an explicit lingerie outfit so sheer that you could read an appliance warranty through it in an unlit closet.

They say California's the big burrito; Texas is a big taco right now. We want to follow that through. Florida is a big tamale.

I move between San Francisco and Paris... I have a wonderful beach house in California.

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?

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

I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.

I like to go for a little drive up the California coast.

For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.

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 full of Mexican culture and Mexican music.

Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

It's highly competitive to be here. People don't come to California to drop out anymore. It's a very striving place.

I live in a pretty liberal place, so it's a lot of hidden racism and things like that. If you really look up California, it's a really shitty place when it comes to things like that.

I went with my husband and an innocent child to California. I went to a theatrical manager and asked him to allow me to earn money enough on the stage to buy our tickets home. He did.

I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream

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

A big reason I wanted to do a tour was because I'm from Michigan and not many things go to Michigan. Most conventions are in like London or Florida or California, and that's about it.

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.

In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services.

As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada.

But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.

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

California is an unbelievable state. One day I might be in a spiritual place like Joshua Tree, then before I know it, I'm eating groovy sushi in a mini-mall. I'm a Cali girl through and through.

Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake.

It is clear that a temporary increase in the cap is needed to ensure high-tech companies can hire the specialized personnel they need to continue to help fuel California's economic growth.

Prison guard unions have become the powerful political forces in some states, particularly California.

California is going to be quite good for the Democrats. But the rest of the country is a draw.

I may yet move [from Nashville], and where would I move if not Texas or New Mexico? I couldn't afford a home in California. I need to travel out of there occasionally.

California, here I come, right back where I started from.

When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.

Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?

How about this John Kerry controversy? So he's out there in California, tells some kind of joke and it backfires. He's saying he botched the joke. ... This guy can lose elections he's not even in.

I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And I travel a tremendous amount. I'm in New York and California a lot, but then also I like faraway places a lot.

Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California excels.

My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.

If you're a kid in Southern California, somebody - whether it's you or your parents - somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two.

All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.

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