Steve Maviglio Quotations

We are going to see if we can get some consensus.

There is a reasonable degree of flexibility. Where there is a will there is a way.

On any other expenditure done by the state, prevailing wage is the law. If you begin to chip away here, it would start undermining the wages that are paid to California workers.

But don't tell everyone else to live within their means when you can't do it yourself.

We've marched down the field and are inside the 10-yard line. The speaker is increasingly confident we can hammer the language on an agreement soon.

We have believed all along that there was manipulation by El Paso, but the test now is to see what FERC is going to do.

You know a campaign is going south when a candidate stops talking about his issues and postures for the cameras,

yet another reminder that the governor has failed to provide leadership in Sacramento and work with the Legislature to get things done.

The governor is proving that he's a crafty actor. Every day, it's a new image. The truth is, no one believes a word he says because he's broken so many promises and gone through so many metamorphoses.

The governor is now in sheer panic mode.

The governor is finally waking up to the fact that the Bush presidency has been a disaster for California.

The Rose Institute is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican Party.

This fundraiser has been held for nearly a decade and was planned more than a year ago. The notion that the speaker is supporting this bill for any other reason than it is good public policy that will save California consumers $1 billion is absurd.

This is a bad hangover from the governor's costly and unnecessary special election, and we're still paying the price.

It's almost like you're praying, ... Your hands are closely cropped together with one hand on each side of the BlackBerry. Your thumbs do all the walking and that is basically the wrong way to do it.

That's one of the few areas where there will be no disagreements. No one wants to be responsible for another Katrina.

I noticed sharp pain in the area between my thumb and index finger, ... I remember making more telephone calls deliberately to avoid having to use the keyboard and the BlackBerry.

If it happens by June, so be it. If it takes longer, that's fine. We want to do this right, not fast.

The job has not been offered or discussed. There hasn't been a single conversation.