Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same.

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction.

Life simply is. It follows its course. Give yourself to the moment. Let life reveal itself to you.

America and the world is not yet on the proper trajectory.

We`re not going to have a backlash. We`re going to build a consensus. And I live in the real world, not the kind of fantasy goals that we would all like, but we would never achieve if we go about it in the blunderbuss fashion that your question would assume.

At least when I was govenor, cocaine was expensive.