Gavin Newsom Quotes
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I made bad decisions. That being said - the question is, does the public care about that?
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You can love me or hate me and disagree with me, but you sure as hell know where I stand.
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Make no mistake: conversion therapy is not about 'praying away the gay.' It's an emotional torture against our most innocent citizens: our children.
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The people that are serving you gas, the people that are in your restaurants serving you, the firefighters, and police officers are members of the gay and lesbian community. They're members of our broader community.
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If, in this country, a simple majority of people can start stripping away the rights of a protected class in the minority, that's a pretty alarming thing.
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
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If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love. And to deny that for your own political expediency, I don't want to live in that column. It ain't worth it.
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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Californians are blessed with the remarkable leadership of Gov. Jerry Brown, who... has led our state to firm fiscal footing and brought us to the enviable position of dreaming - and achieving - big dreams again.
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California is a bellwether state. California was the first state in the United States to overturn the laws against interracial marriage. It took 19 years for the rest of the country to come around to that point of view.
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San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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Take responsibility. Step up and step in. Because at the end of the day, folks, we are our behaviors.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.
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Do I support a driver's license for everybody? The answer is yes.
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I'm really more of an executive.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.