“I am my happiest self when generations in my family are getting together and I'm cooking.”

“The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals.”

“I love Venn diagrams. I really do, I love Venn diagrams. It's just something about those three circles and the analysis about where there is the intersection, right?”

“Part of my focus on what we need to do around smart gun safety laws is recognize we have to have more enforcement around gun dealers.”

“Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.”

“The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.”

“California produces 40% of America's fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts - the kind you eat. We have had a bumper crop of the other variety, too.”

“In California, we are a sixty percent Hispanic state, we elected an Austrian governor. Even old Nazis are going "That's weird."”