The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

The Republicans are committed to global warming as a hoax, or irrelevant, or as not a problem. That is their belief. I'm not going to put them in jail. All I can do is talk and encourage good climate actions and demonstrate our economy has benefited here [in California].

Republican attacks are without basis, but when the Democrats attack me they're usually right.

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

We're going to get that little bug before that little bug gets my poll ratings down any further.

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.