Quotes by Gray Davis

Well, there’s no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market.

We’re going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.

Why? Because we’re very well down this process as it is – flawed as it is – and we’re counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.

So it was flawed in that it didn’t require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.

There are so many scenarios here. We tried to prepare for the worst summer in 40 years and build assumptions based on that. We’re preparing for the worst, but we’re hoping for the best. And I’ve told people the end is in sight.

I’m doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California.

I am calling on everyone in this state to put the chaos and the division of the recall behind us and do what’s right for this great state of California.

There’s no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America, and to contribute to its technological productivity.

I am calling on everyone in this state to put the chaos and the division of the recall behind us and do what's right for this great state of California.

I have not been briefed.