The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina’s problems haven’t been solved, and Congress’ response is to criticize Federal judges. – Alcee Hastings
My mother is from Compton, California, but my father is from Hayneville, Alabama, and that’s less than 20 miles from Selma. – Ava DuVernay
I’m from Southern California, so I feel much more comfortable with a golf club in my hand than I do a weapon. – Bert Blyleven
I’m happy wherever I go, whatever I do. I’m happy in Iowa, I’m happy here in California. – Ashton Kutcher
Edan Lepucki sets her debut novel, ‘California,’ somewhere in the 2060s. The nearness of this era helps make her vision both more discomfiting and more credible. – Amity Gaige
I’m very stodgy. I’m always looking at old photos of California and Los Angeles, knowing that what I’m looking at is now full of houses. There used to be vacant lots in Los Angeles, now all taken up by three-storey boxes – it’s all getting infilled. – Edward Ruscha
I have a really good band, and just returned from a short tour in California. It hasn’t always gone that well. – Mick Taylor
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. – George W. Bush
Like my colleague, I represent a large Assyrian community in central California, one of the largest concentrations of Assyrian Americans anywhere in the United States. – Dennis Cardoza
My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best. – Douglass North
The thing that really surprised me about strip malls in California, specifically Los Angeles, is that they have some really fantastic restaurants. – Dave Foley
Hey, I didn’t make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did. – Glenn Frey
I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon’s re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term. – Ed Rollins
I was raised with the Bible Belt mentality, and by coming to California, I came out of this dark place and unlearned a lot of things I’d been taught. – Edward Ruscha
I was born in Ann Arbor. I lived for a while in Ohio; Pennsylvania, California for 10 years, and now in Boston. And I lived in Iowa for a couple of years, where I studied at the Writers Workshop. – Ethan Canin
I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists – the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers. – Mary Harris Jones
Fences would be a hindrance to terrorists should they decide to come across a land border between the U.S. and Mexico and to California. – Duncan Hunter