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

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

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

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

We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge.

As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization in education is crucial to both freedom and excellence.

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