Adoption Quote by Randy Hamilton

Let's make Oakland a model city.

— Ron Dellums

I don't believe other states should be in the business of luring production out of California. We've made it clear that no one is…

— Kevin de Leon

I don't mind being the voice of the New Oakland to maintain the integrity and edge of it. Old Oakland and New Oakland is…

— Fantastic Negrito

California is just too expensive. It's unsustainable.

— Kevin Faulconer

I would say that things like the head tax in Seattle I think are super dangerous for cities to implement. What company is going…

— Andy Jassy

What makes San Francisco work is that high-value people like to live there and cluster.

— James Coulter

The influence that Oakland has on my sound is about 90%. There's so many different elements to Oakland. Of course you have the street…

— Adrian Marcel

If I had it my way, I never would have left San Francisco, but things change and that's the nature of this business. We…

— Jeff Garcia

A city suffering from chronic poverty, out-of-control crime, a $76 million budget deficit and a 15 percent unemployment rate (nearly 50 percent for Oakland's…

— Michelle Malkin

My arrival in Oakland is not a coincidence, it's a God-incidence.

— Manny Ramirez

Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.

— Meg Whitman

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

— Carly Fiorina