I have a great deal of confidence in myself and in my faith.

[Jerry Brown] is California's way of celebrating the Year of the Child.

America has no functioning democracy at this moment.

We don't have any problem finding enough things to do; the problem we have is making sure we don't overload ourselves inadvertently.

I'm an expert cook when it comes to preparing the quail, ducks, geese and wild turkeys that I hunt on the farm.

We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.

In the Great Depression in which I grew up and remember vividly, unemployment was over 25 percent, and over 35 percent where I lived. A grown man would work all day, 16 hours, for a dollar. I remember hundreds of people walking by, people who had come down from the North just to get warm. They would come to our house as beggars even though they might have a college education. People didn't have money. They bartered; they'd trade eggs or pigs. It was just completely different.