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.

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

We’re being ripped off and screwed by a bunch of liars, thieves, crooks, and criminals, and they’re not the folks below. Don’t look in the streets, look in the corporate suites.

This is exciting, it is bold and it is absolutely necessary if we are to have any chance of stopping potentially catastrophic changes to our climate system.

Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

The whole Jeffersonian ideal was that people are temporarily in government. Government is not the basic reality. People are. The private sector. And government is just a limited power to make things go better.

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.