Phil Angelides Quotes (28 Quotes)

If needed to balance the budget, I will be willing to raise income taxes on the wealthiest and close corporate benefits and loopholes that have been given over the last few years,

California's level of debt is far greater than when the governor took office 23 months ago. And the state is facing deficits as far as the eye can see,

This is the kind of self-serving manipulation that undermines the faith and confidence of ordinary working Californians, ... There is simply no justification for these excessive payouts.

has come down on the wrong side of history.

By any measure, Arnold Schwarzenegger is a failed governor, a photo-op politician who has left a long trail of shattered promises and missed opportunities,

California cannot afford four more years of the Bush-Schwarzenegger agenda.

I would be remiss as treasurer if I did not speak out. This is an annually required report. The facts are hard and, unfortunately, not good for the people of California,

This proposition is designed to make it difficult for young women to get the medical attention they need at a very difficult time,

This measure would reduce funding for classrooms and transportation, but this is no surprise, ... The Republicans have been on a crusade to limit public investments in things that will help people and communities.

There's no question we're in worse shape fiscally than when this governor took over,

He has been less than truthful with the people of California about what it's going to take to restore fiscal integrity and get the economy going, ... I'm going to fight for what I think is right for rebuilding this economy. I will give no quarter in that respect.

This is really what they're after. Everything else is a mask, ... What Governor Schwarzenegger wants to do is he wants to make it almost impossible for working men and women to participate in the politics of our state while his large, corporate, special-interest friends go unfettered and can line his campaign coffers with tens of millions of dollars.

The Bush panel's recommendations are a double-barreled blast aimed squarely at California and the middle class, ... These recommendations are good for Texas, but bad for California.

From the day Arnold Schwarzenegger came into office he's done the wrong things for California, ... He heaped debt on our kids, turned young people away from college and favored wealthy special interests over working people at every turn.

The program has trailed the benchmarks, but we have made a number of changes and the performance has improved, ... People have to look at this as a long-term endeavor.

The controller and the governor should join me in putting a halt to new financing until new air and water standards are in place.

This is the foot in the door, ... I can see the authority is getting a whole new wave of dairy applications.

the governor's spending initiative would, over time, make it more difficult to invest in education and transportation and, in fact, would end up, perhaps, taking substantial monies from local governments, who were promised last year that they would remain free from raids by the state.

Our urban neighborhoods were being overlooked by traditional investors. Too often these inner-city markets were being written off as places of risk, ... The private markets and private capital shunned these areas.

This is especially egregious because at the very time when these HMO executives are getting these huge paydays - whether or not the merger does well for shareholders or consumers - 6 million Californians have no health insurance and millions of working families are just struggling to pay their health care premiums,

If you care about the markets -- if you care about the sanctity of the marketplace and transparency -- Dick Grasso should resign and revise the pay package,

Schwarzenegger now hopes to bring the common Bush-Schwarzenegger agenda to this bluest of blue states. I am hopeful that the people of California will see through the governor's deception and dishonesty.

California better hope he's not in it for the long-run, ... From Day 1, I stood up to Arnold Schwarzenegger because I thought he was doing the wrong things to California. I'm looking forward to this race.

I think voters are seeing each and every day that this governor just doesn't have the competence and the credibility to govern.

It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority.

Our inner-city neighborhoods have been written off as places of great risks, but they are also places of great opportunities and great possibilities,

Proposition 75 is the crown jewel of the Bush-Schwarzenegger agenda, straight out of the (Bush adviser) Karl Rove playbook. This is what's important in this election. Everything else is just a mask, ... It's unfair, not right -- and we'll defeat it when the people understand the governor is for it.

I am honored to have earned the support of Senator Feinstein, ... In 1992 we made history together, and I look forward to once again working with Senator Feinstein to build a California of economic prosperity, fairness and broad opportunity.