158 Quotes by Gavin Newsom

I will negotiate with my worst enemy.

If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.

A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies.

There's been a gap between perception and reality, the perception being that California is on the cutting edge of gun safety legislation when, in fact, there are a number of areas where we have fallen behind.

We need to allow people to bypass government... to look to themselves for solving problems rather than asking the government to do things for them.

At the end of the day, there's not a day that goes by without a mass shooting.

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.

Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.

California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'