George Deukmejian Quotes

I don’t see any need to unduly burden the taxpayer.

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

The Supreme Court, or any court, when they make a decision, if that’s a publisheddecision, it becomes virtually like a statute. Everybody is suppose to follow that law. Whether I decide to allow a law to become a law without my signature is simplyin effect expressing a view that while I don’t particularly care for this, the Legislature passed it, it was an overwhelming.vote, or maybe there were other reasons. Butmy decision not to sign doesn’t have to be followed byeverybody from that point on

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

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.

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.

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.

We’re looking at available sources, all sources, in the area of additional energy.

There have been various pesticides that have been properly tested, that have been registered and then have been used and later on they’ve been discoveredthat they can create harm, like in the case of this Oftanol that was being used here (in Sacramento, against the Japanese beetle). Now they find that it can cause problems at least to animals. So we stopped using it.

The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can’t improve your lie.

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.

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