Every day there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home, or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.

California is not just the Golden State. We are also the Internet State.

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

I think Pebble Beach is kind of a unique place on the planet.

People don’t want drama 365 days a year. I’m a sense of relief; it’s my job to take your mind off what’s bad for that brief second you’re in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I’m doing.

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Remember that before ‚Roe v. Wade‘ was decided, there were four states that allowed abortion in the first trimester if that’s what the woman sought: New York, Hawaii, California, Alaska. Other states were shifting. And people were fighting over this issue in state legislatures.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn’t know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I’m worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That’s always first.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

In California, they don’t throw their garbage away – they make it into TV shows.

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it’s not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it’s really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don’t see a viable competitor.

Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.

If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they’ve done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.

I think California has the best energy.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can’t you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that’s different from a California textbook that’s different from a Massachusetts textbook. That’s very expensive.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.