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

Organic farming is about buying out of a corrupt, illegal and dishonest system.

My goal in signing these [gun control ] bills is to enhance public safety by tightening our existing laws in a responsible and focused manner, while protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners.

I reject get-it-done, make-it-happen thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand others better.

I see the day in our own lifetime that reverence for the natural systems, the oceans, the rainforests, the soil, the grasslands, and all other living things will be so strong that no narrow ideology based upon politics or economics will overcome it.

It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.

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