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“California is a marvel: a hotbed of technology innovation, home of the entertainment industry, with huge long stretches of just the most gorgeous coastline…

— Sara K. Smith

“Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that.”

— Tiffany Madison

There's no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America,…

— Gray Davis

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

California is now a valuable touchstone to the country, a warning of what not to do. Rarely has a single generation inherited so much…

— Victor Davis Hanson

California is many things, and it is a harbinger of what this country will become if illegal immigration isn't stopped. You're gonna have a…

— Rush Limbaugh

“What’s California like?” Jared asked after another minute’s silence. “Warm, very sunny,” Catherine replied. “They’ve got almost everything they need there. They can grow…

— Robert Edward

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

“I came to quite an opposite conclusion, and have not wavered from it since. I do not think[Pg 116] there will ever be a…

— Edward Money

“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

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

— Sarah Ockler

“But what other place on Earth has been more congenial to believers and promoters of mad dreams and schemes of so many kinds? California…

— Kurt Andersen