George Deukmejian Quotes

#1. 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.

George Deukmejian

#2. 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.

George Deukmejian

#3. Globalisation must have, as a critical component, international dispensation in the locality of U.N. institutions. It cannot be, and must not be, business as usual in the establishment and location of international institutions, especially of the United Nations.

Anthony Carmona

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

George Deukmejian

#5. 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.

George Deukmejian

#6. With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; it is what it is. It's an adventure film.

Steven Strait

#7. Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.

Gene Fowler

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

George Deukmejian

#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.

George Deukmejian

#10. 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.

George Deukmejian

#11. 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.

George Deukmejian

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

George Deukmejian

#13. Faith encompasses so much more than a denomination!

Deborah Brodie

#14. 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.

George Deukmejian

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

George Deukmejian

#16. I cringed at the stupid 'b' word. Really, the English language is kind of limited in that department.

C.M. Stunich

#17. I travel around the world in a way that tries to open my mind and give me empathy and inspire me to come home and make this world a better place.

Rick Steves

#18. A city presents many different faces, and it is up to the traveller to assemble the proper composite.

David Levithan

#19. One time in the late '50s, when Peter Finch, Laurence Harvey, and I were all offered the same movie role - the assumption being that we weren't friends - we marched up to producer Dino De Laurentiis's door and declared in unison, 'We don't think we're suitable for the part.'

Peter O'Toole

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

George Deukmejian

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

George Deukmejian

#22. And those who say, "I'll try anything once," often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for.

Carl Sandburg