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One of the defining dynamics of 2008 has been the emerging wave of new, young voters getting involved and storming the gates of the traditional political establishment.

If high-wage, high-cost nations like Germany and Japan can compete on exports, California can.

It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.

Make no mistake: conversion therapy is not about 'praying away the gay.' It's an emotional torture against our most innocent citizens: our children.

I don't know many better training grounds than being mayor of San Francisco - those were pretty intense years in terms of reporting and scrutiny.

There was a lot of hype about social media in President Obama's first campaign. It was important, but it wasn't as important as I think people let on.

Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation.

It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.

You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger champion of high-speed rail than me when the bond went to voters. I believed in it.

The Republican Party - that was the end of the Republican Party. What Pete Wilson did with the xenophobia and the negative attitude, all this sort of anti-crime backlash.

We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.

If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.

I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.

Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.

I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.

My mother - it's not one of those waxing-poetic kind of things - she literally worked two or three jobs most of her life. So I personally experienced that, even though I had these great friends and associations who had unlimited amounts of money. That juxtaposition was an interesting one.

Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.

While it was refreshing to finally see an openly gay man speak at a Republican convention, it doesn't remove the stain of selecting Mike Pence, America's most anti-LGBT governor.

I've never been a fan of pretense or procrastination. After all, our state is defined by its independent, outspoken spirit.

Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.

Do what you think is right, because one damn thing is an absolute, certainly: We come and go. Politicians are a dime a dozen.