When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.
Johnny Rivers

When I got traded to the California Angels, I really wasn't that excited about going to the Angels because it meant changing leagues and also a whole new set of teammates. But shortly after I got there I realized that it was one of the best things that ever happened to me.
Nolan Ryan

When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.
Will Rogers

When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever.
Robert Toombs

Whenever I get a free day, I drive up to some part of California that looks promising on the map.
Kent McCord

Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?
Stephen Ambrose

Why did we go to war? Why did we pick people from South Carolina, California, and all the places in between to go to a foreign land and risk their lives and have some die? To make sure that Saddam Hussein could do no more damage to the region or us than he has already done.
Lindsey Graham

With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.
Sally Kirkland

Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's economy unique.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.
Wanda Jackson