You are fortunate to live here. If I were your President…

To be able to sit in your living room, watch a speech live by the president, and be able to look into his eyes,…

— Ken Berry

“For several months they'd been drifting toward political involvement, but the picture was hazy and one of the most confusing elements was their geographical…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Perpetual spring, the flare of adventure in the blood, the impulse of men who packed Virgil with their bean-bags on the overland journey, conspired~…

— William Henry Irwin

I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war to me, if those were…

— Pete Stark

We're crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.

— John Lennon

“She ran a streak of foundation under each eye, highlighter down the bridge of her nose, and bronzer beneath each cheekbone—a layer of armor…

— Jessica Taylor

I’m just mad for San Francisco. It is like London and Paris stacked on top of each other.

— Twiggy

The initial spark that promoted me to start Not For Sale was human trafficking in the San Francisco Bay Area. This led me to…

— David Batstone

Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one whose name,…

— Georges Pompidou

The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined.

— Jose Ferreira

San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.

— Rudyard Kipling

“McDonald's, meanwhile, continues busily to harass small shopkeepers and restaurateurs of Scottish descent for that nationality's uncompetitive predisposition toward the Mc prefix on its…

— Naomi Klein

Caen's San Francisco may not be the city we remember, but it is the city we want to remember.

— Willie Brown

The Bay Area is so beautiful, I hesitate to preach about heaven while I'm here.

— Billy Graham

The cool, grey city of love.

— George Sterling