I've seen firsthand coming here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of desire, full of will to succeed, but with the opportunities that I had, I could make it. This is why we have to get back and bring California back to where it once was.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

Politics is not really different from marriage. You cannot get things done in your relationship if you tell your wife: Look, if you haven't made the bed and if you don't get the food on the table, I will go and just hire someone and you will become irrelevant. That is not how you make a marriage work.

I never wanted to be a career politician. I always am interested just to take on challenges that everyone says are impossible to do and to take it on.

You never want to fail because you didn't work hard enough.

All I know is that the first step is to create a vision, because when you see the vision – the beautiful vision – that creates the want power.