39 Quotes by Phil Angelides

The merger should not be approved unless the executive compensation package is stripped out,

If needed to balance the budget, I will be willing to raise income taxes on the wealthiest and close corporate benefits and loopholes that have been given over the last few years,

I'm being outspent dramatically on TV and will be all the way to the finish line.'

California's level of debt is far greater than when the governor took office 23 months ago. And the state is facing deficits as far as the eye can see,

California cannot afford four more years of the Bush-Schwarzenegger agenda.

California better hope he's not in it for the long-run, ... From Day 1, I stood up to Arnold Schwarzenegger because I thought he was doing the wrong things to California. I'm looking forward to this race.

can't imagine compelling them to talk to me about this difficult a subject.

Governor after governor after governor has done it, and he needs to do it. There's no other option, ... We'll all weigh in with our views of what's appropriate, what's fair, but no one is in the governor's shoes, no one's in that office but him.

It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars.