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. – Kamala Harris
I grew up in Northern California, so the hippies were still around. My father and mother were very Republican, very strait-laced and very uptight, but my uncles were hippies. – Grant Show
I won the youth vote in Massachusetts and in California. I did very well with it in Ohio. – Hillary Clinton
My parents moved out to California in 1968 from Ohio in a VW station wagon pulling a little trailer. I was 4 months old. They were following the energy out here. – Guy Fieri
The fourth album encapsulated some remarkable music that was really groundbreaking. We were able to have something like ‘When the Levee Breaks,’ which, sonically, was very menacing. But then you had the flip side: something like ‘Going to California,’ which is really intimate. – Jimmy Page
Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting. – James Surowiecki
California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout. – Jim DeMint
I resist and resent the idea of California as a metaphor. It’s something thrust upon us, usually by people in the East. – John Gregory Dunne
I took the California Highway Patrol exam and didn’t pass, so I tried to be a cop and failed. – John Cena
I’m really into California art from the ’60s. I like a lot of Bay Area artists, like Nathan Oliveira and Bruce Conner. – Barry McGee
In California, there are huge problems because of dams. I’m against big dams, per se, because I think that they are economically unfeasible. They’re ecologically unsustainable. And they’re hugely undemocratic. – Arundhati Roy
I’m living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile. – Isabel Allende
I grew up in Palm Springs, California, which is a suburb like a desert town, and I love it. – Alia Shawkat
It’s a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W. Bush in 2004. It’s incredible when you think about it. The recall cost the state $100 million. – Al Jardine
In California, up to 15 percent of wells in agricultural areas exceed a federal contaminant threshold, according to studies. – Charles Duhigg
I didn’t go to L.A. because I wanted to move to California. I went to L.A. to work as an actor. – Bryan Greenberg
Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884. – Calamity Jane
I’m in California, and that usually leans Democratic, and that’s usually where I lean anyway… I would lean Democrat; I would lean Obama. – Axl Rose