California Quotes - Page 21

• The United States is a rogue state violating international law in many, many ways that California wouldn't have to if it seceded and became a nation.

  David Swanson

  Law, Way, Rogues

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• California, like anywhere else on Earth, should have the right to secede whether the United States likes it or not. The preferences of the other 49 states and Washington DC is not relevant. That was the position of the United States government on Yugoslavia and other places around the world but not on Ukraine. However, morality and the law as I understand it are that any people should have the right to leave, just as explained in the initial words of the US Declaration of Independence.

  David Swanson

  Government, Ukraine, Should Have

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Many militarists would like to see California's votes vanish from the national electoral system, which would then become more Republican.

  David Swanson

  Vote, Republican, Electoral Systems

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• California as a nation or part of a larger West Coast nation, should other states join with California, would be a good influence on the rest of the United States.

  David Swanson

  West Coast, United States, Would Be

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If we think that we can somehow gain control of the US government, bring it under popular, enlightened progressive control, preserve a habitable climate, and rein in the dangers of nuclear and other warfare, then we should. However, if we think it's more likely that California can achieve those goals by secession, then we should go down that path. There's no question. It's an absolute moral imperative.

  David Swanson

  Thinking, Government, Goal

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• But all was not sunshine and Marvin Gaye songs. [UCLA] also recruited black students as part of a High Potential Program that was meant to bring diversity to the campus. Two of the students that were part of that program were Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr., both members of the Black Panther Party's Southern California Chapter.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Song, Party, Sunshine

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• I may yet move [from Nashville], and where would I move if not Texas or New Mexico? I couldn't afford a home in California. I need to travel out of there occasionally.

  Steve Young

  Moving, Home, Texas

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

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• When I lived in California, 1984 to '87, it was a Republican state. Sacramento where I lived was 73% Democrat voter registration, when I got there. It was in the sixties when I left. We had amazing success in converting Democrats in Sacramento. But Pete Wilson, Ronald Reagan, all people elected governors and so forth, it's only been with the advent of the 1986 immigration bill that we lost California, if I might say, and now it's just gone so far left they're seriously talking about seceding.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Talking, People, Might

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• You want to trace California's move to the far left, you go back to the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli bill. Simpson-Mazzoli was where we granted amnesty to, at the time, what was three and a half million illegal aliens. And that's it. We were told that would be it. We would start being strict about guarding the borders and making sure that there wasn't any more illegal immigration, but that didn't happen. That was the design. Ted Kennedy, Simpson-Mazzoli, it was their idea here and it's worked out magnificently for them to this extent.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Moving, Ideas, Design

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• California just is so deeply left, particularly coastal. It just is.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Coastal, Left

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think this is exactly where the action is, is in the middle. I have seen it when I was governor of the state of California. I have seen it firsthand, that the only way we brought Democrats and Republicans together, we could really solve very important issues. I remember that's how we really started rebuilding California and invested $60 billion in infrastructure.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Thinking, Issues, Important

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• We can see, from California to New York, from Maine to Florida, Seattle to New Mexico - everywhere there are women's groups. Everywhere there are women who have gotten together to examine global warming, and women who have gotten together to prepare each other for single parenting - there are women who have come together to be supportive to those whose mates are in prison, male or female, partners are in prison. All sorts of gatherings of women. I mean, I'm just celebrating my 80th year on this planet, and I look back 50 years ago and there was nothing like that.

  Maya Angelou

  New York, Mean, Florida

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Within two years of my conversion, at a Bible conference at Mt. Hermon in California, I dedicated my life to the Lord for full-time service. And since then, I have been joyfully following in that path that He has led me on.

  Cliff Barrows

  Years, Two, Path

  "Cliff Barrows Still Singing at 90". Interview with Bob Paulson, billygraham.org. April 28, 2013.

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• If I was going for the popular vote I would've won easily. But I would've been in California and New York. I wouldn't have been in Maine. I wouldn't have been in Iowa. I wouldn't have been in Nebraska and all of those states that I had to win in order to win this. I would've been in New York, I would've been in California. I never even went there.

  Donald Trump

  New York, Winning, Popular Vote

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I think it's alright if the government wants to say, in the state of Massachusetts, in the state of New York, in the state of California, that civil ceremonies should be accepted, I think that should be fine. I don't think that even those states that believe in civil marriages between homosexuals or ordained in a church should perform civil ceremonies.

  Jimmy Carter

  New York, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• When I ran against George Bush Sr. in 1992, and we did very well in New Hampshire, and then we went on to California, it was four, five months later, I got 30 percent in the counties in Southern California, because Californians wanted us to do something about thousands of people walking into our country on weekends, and the president of the United States and the government of the United States, unlike General Eisenhower who dealt with it, did nothing. And that's what Trump is riding.

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, Weekend, Government

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I have a funny relationship to language. When I came to California when I was three I spoke Urdu fluently and I didn't speak a word of English. Within a few months I lost all my Urdu and spoke only English and then I learned Urdu all over again when I was nine. Urdu is my first language but it's not as good as my English and it's sort of become my third language. English is my best language but was the second language I learned.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Funny Relationship, Three, Nine

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• I went from a naive, regular girl in high school to trying to realize my dream. When my family moved from the East Coast to California, I thought in my little brain, "Wow, I'm going to Hollywood. I could actually make this happen." It was easier for me to think it's possible living in a place like Los Angeles than trying to do it in suburban Maryland.

  Joan Jett

  Girl, Dream, School

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Prison guard unions have become the powerful political forces in some states, particularly California.

  Michelle Alexander

  Powerful, Prison Guards, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Nixon identified himself as a crisis-laden man. He'd reach levels of victory and then he'd plunge into defeat. He was vice president, then he lost to Kennedy, then he lost the California governorship. Then came a great comeback and then he blew it again - and the next comeback, after he lost the presidency. He was a man who needed the feeling of walking the precipice.

  Oliver Stone

  Men, Feelings, Victory

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• We have to band together, but the thing in America is that people are terrified of losing their jobs... Maybe California needs to secede. The only thing that'll make any difference is the money... Tax dollars and losing that amount of money. It's one of the most economically powerful states, isn't it? That's where it hurts.

  Cate Blanchett

  Hurt, Jobs, Powerful

  Source: www.elle.com

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• There are great jazz educators that I meet all the time. I met a guy named Paul Luchessi who has a high school jazz program in Fresno. And Bob Athayde who runs a junior high program in Lafayette, California. And man, we walked into these schools and Paul Luchessi said, "Jon is the composer of Paradox." A hundred or something kids started to applaud. "What? You guys know that? I'm so blown away.

  Jon Gordon

  Running, School, Kids

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• I'm not a dermatologist, but I had someone explain it to me, and I've seen the effect on my own skin over the years. So I feel like we need to protect our faces, especially those of us who live in Southern California, from this goddamn sun that's on us all day.

  June Diane Raphael

  Years, Southern, Skins

  "Grace And Frankie's June Diane Raphael on the joy of calling Donald Trump a 'little bitch'". Interview with Alex McLevy, tv.avclub.com. March 22, 2017.

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• I think if you come out to California trying to be an actor, it's pretty hard. There's desperation. A lot of people are desperate, and a lot of people are clueless, including me. It's hard to try to figure it out. I've never told you, but I have head shots that if you saw them... they're so terrible! It's so embarrassing.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Clueless, Thinking, People

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• The Republicans are committed to global warming as a hoax, or irrelevant, or as not a problem. That is their belief. I'm not going to put them in jail. All I can do is talk and encourage good climate actions and demonstrate our economy has benefited here [in California].

  Jerry Brown

  Climate Action, Jail, Hoaxes

  "'The world shifts': Gov. Jerry Brown talks California, climate change and President Trump". Interview with Chris Megerian, www.latimes.com. April 15, 2017.

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