Gavin Newsom Quotes
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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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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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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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I'm really more of an executive.
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
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Do I support a driver's license for everybody? The answer is yes.
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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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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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I made bad decisions. That being said - the question is, does the public care about that?
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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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You don't have to be something to do something.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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We must continue to step in and stand up to resist reckless rhetoric and actions in a peaceful and forceful manner.
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My mother - it's not one of those waxing-poetic kind of things - she literally worked two or three jobs most of her life. So I personally experienced that, even though I had these great friends and associations who had unlimited amounts of money. That juxtaposition was an interesting one.
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One of the defining dynamics of 2008 has been the emerging wave of new, young voters getting involved and storming the gates of the traditional political establishment.
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Do what you think is right, because one damn thing is an absolute, certainly: We come and go. Politicians are a dime a dozen.
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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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San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening.
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There's something called CEQA in California - NEPA at the federal level. There's indigenous lands and autonomies relating to governance on those lands. There are all kinds of obstructions as it relates to just getting zoning approval and getting building permits.
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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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If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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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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It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.