I really feel it's time to dissolve the current relationship of governor and lieutenant governor by running as a ticket.

People don't have to agree with me. They can say, 'My gosh, I can't believe I'm listening to this guy. I can't disagree with him more.' But at least they know that I'm going to fight for things that I believe in. And I don't need to be in formal office to do that.

Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation.

Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.

If, in this country, a simple majority of people can start stripping away the rights of a protected class in the minority, that's a pretty alarming thing.

The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.

The question for politicians here is fundamental: You can read the polls, or you can change the polls. Stand up on the things you believe in.

It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.

Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.

Good people can disagree.

Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.

You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger champion of high-speed rail than me when the bond went to voters. I believed in it.

People always thought I'd never get elected outside San Francisco; I was always more worried that I'd never get elected again inside San Francisco.

If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love. And to deny that for your own political expediency, I don't want to live in that column. It ain't worth it.

Do what you think is right, because one damn thing is an absolute, certainly: We come and go. Politicians are a dime a dozen.

No-Drama Obama? Yeah, that's not me.

I act on my principles, whether they're popular or not.

The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.

Even if Donald Trump's successful, it's the beginning of the end if this rhetoric persists in the Republican Party.

The Republican Party - that was the end of the Republican Party. What Pete Wilson did with the xenophobia and the negative attitude, all this sort of anti-crime backlash.

Founders Den provides the kind of collaborative and creative atmosphere to foster new ideas not only for emerging new businesses, but government as well.

Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.

We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.

We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.