Small business growth is crucial to California's jobs climate. All of the small business advocate winners have demonstrated leadership abilities not only in running their own businesses, which is a major accomplishment, but also in working to promote policies that will help other small businesses thrive.

You can't just make arbitrary caps without regard to jobs, without regard to costs.

The budget presented today is a responsible and reasonable use of the increased revenues produced by our robust economy. With no new taxes, the balanced budget presented today is a good step towards keeping California's economy thriving.

We need to dedicate the transportation dollars we have to our highest priorities -- places where congestion is an impediment to job creation.

With all the real and pressing problems facing this state, the last thing we need to do is raise taxes $2.4 billion to create a new government-run bureaucracy to replace our current system of preschools.

I think if you look at most polling, Californians want their taxes on gas to go toward improving the transportation system, not toward something that might marginally improve carbon emissions.

He's clearly made economic prosperity the hallmark of his administration.