The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.

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.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

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.

Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.

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.

The great problem with government is that it never goes bankrupt.