Gray Davis Quotes (89 Quotes)

The unions also hope to cement the impression that Schwarzenegger has failed to make good on his vow to shut down the money-buys-influence culture in Sacramento. One of their latest TV spots features a police officer saying Schwarzenegger has taken more special-interest money ... Not the governor we thought you'd be.

The choice next Tuesday is crystal clear You can retain me as governor and allow me to finish the term you elected me to serve last November, or you can elect Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor,

I believe the solution to the energy challenge is threefold stabilize prices, increase conservation and increase generation,

Gov. Gray Davis is putting his best foot forward. I feel absolutely terrific, ... I have always trusted the voters of California, I know they're going to do the right thing today.

George Bush, whatever his skills and accomplishments, will not carry California. You can take to that to the bank,

are clearly a crime.

Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market.

He should have spent a year as a substance governor, dealing with what people care about,'' he said.

If we come together and unite against this recall, we will beat back this power grab and send a message from California to Crawford, Texas, to the White House We are not going to stand for a Republican power grab,

We're not going to take this sitting down. We are fighting back.

This decision was wrongheaded and it should not be allowed to stand, ... With troops overseas, this is the wrong decision at the worst possible time.

from anyone who will give it.

I am working as hard as I can to make this state better,

Duke came to us. They volunteered to come to us and made a number of suggestions to some people on my staff. I don't know how I would characterize them, but there have been some discussions going back and forth between Duke and members of my staff.

This is an unspeakably barbarous act. These investigators were working hard, doing their jobs, protecting California consumers. I am sure that law enforcement will do everything in its power to bring those responsible to justice.

a huge miscalculation. They did not anticipate the recovery that California experienced and the particular needs of the tech-based economy here in California. Secondly, there was no effort to build more (power) plants to meet that demand.

I am calling on everyone in this state to put the chaos and the division of the recall behind us and do what's right for this great state of California.

So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.

Well, we're trying to patch and fix and put a cast on a broken system here. You can call it what you want, but we'll continue to purchase power in a private market.

The answer to improving public schools is staying on the path that we are on.

My friends, this was a massive effort ranging over 180 miles in six counties, probably the worst fires in California history,

The people did decide that it's time for someone else to serve and I accept their judgment.

have a plan in place and we believe it's working.

We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built.

I'm taking care of the rest of it, ... We are building more plants and we are conserving, but prices under the law we passed in 1996 are exclusively a matter for the federal government to resolve -- and they've dropped the ball big time.

Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.

This is yet another example of a senseless barbaric act of violence against innocent children and defenseless adults,

There is only one governor, and his name is Gray Davis.

They're very well thought of in California ... and I think they can bring independent validation to some of the good work that we've done.

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, and to contribute to its technological productivity.

As the governor of this state, I obviously see the issue quite differently.

Meanwhile, people have to join us and fight back against the federal government that has dropped the ball, that is in bed with these energy companies, that wants them to make more money than they've made before.

If the news events over the last couple days have raised any doubts in your mind about the wisdom of electing Arnold Schwarzenegger, I say to you, 'Come home, vote no on the recall.'

There are so many scenarios here. We tried to prepare for the worst summer in 40 years and build assumptions based on that. We're preparing for the worst, but we're hoping for the best. And I've told people the end is in sight.

But Bustamante -- whose announced campaign strategy is to urge Californians to vote No on Recall, Yes on Bustamante ... that there's some good that could come from this as a result.

singles out companies that are conducting transactions electronically and attempts to impose tax-collection obligations on them to which, according to California courts, they are not subject.

These are serious questions, which, if true, raise doubts about his ability to govern this state. You need to think about whether this is a risk California should take,

This year, he's on the right track, and he's trying to chart a course for California proposing investments that will control traffic, reduce pollution and build more schools. That's good, basic stuff.

Despite an offer of nearly half a billion dollars, the company was unwilling to accept reasonable limits proposed by the federal and state governments on its ability to log ancient redwoods.

We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today.

a credit-worthy purchaser. All of us that met today are joined at the hip, and if we are going to move forward, we will move forward together.

Last Friday, 50 million Americans lost power for 29 hours. In California, not a single light has gone out in the last two years,

the most qualified person on question number two.

I know that Duke made a number of demands, including that the attorney general drop its investigation. We have no intention of asking the attorney general to do that.

We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.

For years, Richard Riordan funded the anti-abortion movement, supported anti-choice candidates and even called abortion murder. Now he says he's pro-choice.

I have not been briefed.

Clearly, this was a mechanical problem, very unlikely to be having anything to do with any plot against anyone, ... We regret the loss of life and the injuries that have occurred there.

I would be very tight with your tax dollars, I would be passionate about education, I would be committed to the environment, and I would be death on violent crime

I am going to fight this recall and the right-wing forces behind it. You can take that to the bank.