California Quote by Gavin Newsom

California's a mess.

— Fabio Lanzoni

I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.

— Kamala Harris

“Southern California is the land of crazy crimes.”

— Don Carpenter

“I pull into the mall. This is the place to go when you're feeling homesick for California. The rest of the world likes our…

— Patricia Geary

“About a billion cops,” Darling said. “You move there, you’ll have fifty government workers looking at you, checking your tax records, asking where you…

— John Sandford

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is…

— D. H. Lawrence

California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is…

— Joan Didion

“Winter denial: therein lay the key to California Schadenfreude--the secret joy that the rest of the country feels at the misfortune of California. The…

— Christopher Moore

California is an unusual and electric kind of state - it's wonderful. All sorts of things happen there.

— Mario Cuomo

California is the greatest beacon of opportunity the world has ever known. But we didn't get here through years of political seniority - we…

— Kevin de Leon

“The most tragic thing about California is that nothing is permanent or real here," he says. "It gets to you, you know?”

— Sarah Ockler

California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the land rush,…

— Christopher Isherwood