The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.

I will defend everybody, every man, woman and child who's come to California for a better life and has contributed to the well-being of our state.

You're all welcome in California.

‎We need to become more unreasonable but in an intelligent way.

The farmers markets were another step to giving people an opportunity to take more power over their own lives-and also to provide another outlet for organic produce. That is important because the production and distribution of food is increasingly being monopolized and controlled by large corporate structures, large financial structures.

Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void.

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