George Deukmejian Quotes

#1. I don't see any need to unduly burden the taxpayer.

George Deukmejian

#2. We're looking at available sources, all sources, in the area of additional energy.

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#3. I'm not an expert in it, but it seems to me that you have to let the market forces go their course.

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#4. The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

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#5. One of course is to insure greater supply of energy for California's needs now and in the future in the sense that we are in discussions with representatives of Oregon and Washington, where they do have a surplus supply of energy available, and at what we hope will be a very reasonable price.

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#6. Whether I sign a bill or not, is generally an expression of my personal view on the subject.
It's not an interpretation of an existing law.

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#7. It seems to me that it's better to allow people to have more spendable income.That helps 'LO stimulate the economy and create more jobs.

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#8. One of the biggest problems that we have right now is that in some areas of the State we cannot get additional jobs created because they say the housing costs are too high.

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#9. There are several ways in order to reduce the housing problem.One way is to allow a developer to buy land more cheaply if it's in an outlying area.

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#10. Every lie has 2 parts - the lie we tell others and the one we tell ourselves to justify it.

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#11. I don't think that it's appropriate for the government to say, in effect, we're going to slow
down the growth of housing or that we're going to slow down the extension of the highway and the freeway system.

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#12. My understanding has always been that if there is any indication that pesticides are harmful, that they would not be allowed to be used.

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#13. There does need to be a speed-up of the process.It takes entirely too long to addres5 some of those concerns and, in the process, it becomes so extremely expensive and cumbersome that it tends to turn away those people and companies that want to provide much needed housing.

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