Phil Angelides Quotations

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

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,

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.

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.

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.

has come down on the wrong side of history.

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

Just as Wallace, Thurmond and many other segregationists came to regret their errors, I hope that Gov. Schwarzenegger will come to change his views,

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

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.

People making under $100,000 are going to be paying more,

This special election is about Arnold Schwarzenegger's agenda, and it's the platform for his re-election,

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

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.

We need to continue to press poor-performing companies to clean up their act.

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.

There is no justification for these executives to pocket over $300 million in payouts for just engineering a merger, ... enriching themselves at the expense of shareholders.

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

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.

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.

Proposition 75 is the crown jewel of the Bush-Schwarzenegger agenda, ... It's what they're after. Everything else is a mask.

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.

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,

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

This is not rocket science. You don't need initiatives. What you need to do is present a balanced budget,

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.

At every turn he has favored the corporate special interests over the interests of working families. I will offer a very different version for our future.

The merger should not be approved unless the executive compensation package is stripped out,

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,

I'm being outspent dramatically on TV and will be all the way to the finish line.'

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,

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

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.

can't imagine compelling them to talk to me about this difficult a subject.

Governor after governor after governor has done it, and he needs to do it. There's no other option, ... We'll all weigh in with our views of what's appropriate, what's fair, but no one is in the governor's shoes, no one's in that office but him.

It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars.

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

If someone robs a 7-11, they took $500 and they were able to settle the next day for $50 and no admission of wrongdoing, they'd knock over that 7-11 again.