They’ve been a very reliable entity that focuses on making sure we get good teachers in the schools. They have always moved the ball forward, but always knowing they have to be agents of change,...

Nothing can be further from the truth,

Antonio doesn’t do politics for the purpose of political expediency. His thinking is guided by what’s in his heart, gut, and head.

I almost feel as though the governor picked up a grenade and sort of threw it at the Legislature and ran away,

wasn’t good for California.

This can be a win-win and it should be a win-win.

Everybody understands that we’ve got to put down the boxing gloves and get some stuff done.

This is not the governor you elected, … We elected him governor, not king.

John Hall and I worked shoulder-to-shoulder for nearly a decade in the trenches of politics and public service. No one was more devoted to his craft and to working families. He was passionate about his...

If we’re living within our means, then why are we spending $50 million for a special election? … This was an unnecessary election to begin with.

I want to approach it from the standpoint that California does not have enough help from Washington, D.C., … That is the only reason we ought to be considering declaring an emergency on the issue...

The fact of the matter is unions are outspent by corporate contributors 24 to one,

[As mayor, he has promised to plant 1 million trees, to start building a subway to the ocean, and to take over the city’s ailing school system, from which approximately 60 percent of Latinos and...

[Schwarzenegger wants power] without checks and balances, … I think that’s too much power.

There are a lot of areas we can tackle and make a difference for California. The question is, are we going to walk down that path or not? When you are in a relationship and...

We just spent $55 million of taxpayers’ money that didn’t prove a dang thing. I’m deeply disappointed in our governor,

History will show that Gov. Schwarzenegger had a chance to end the last vestige of legal discrimination in our state, … Instead of choosing the way of the future the governor has aligned himself with...

That’s a very positive sign,

has no confidence (in Mexico) and doesn’t treat it like a modern democracy.

Obviously the governor had a very positive tone about us getting back to work, rolling up our sleeves and tackling some of the tough issues that confront our state,

The governor is serious, but his staff isn’t, … They’re keeping the governor away from getting deals done.

He is at his best when he is trying to bring people together, like he did last year. But that rhetoric has changed. He now has shifted over far more to the Republican mantra of...

Their goal is that we have a very, very low turnout so that a very small minority of California voters decide the outcome of this election,