Gavin Newsom

This is a President that's governing by fear and anger.

Donald Trump in this case is losing this debate.

But if you're going to attack the people in the state, you're going to attack our values, you're going to attack our diversity, I'm going to have the back of those folks and I'll stand up tall against anyone that tries to advance a…

I do want to work with him on emergency preparedness, emergency planning. I do want to rise above this politics and I think that's important.

A 2,000 mile wall is a monument to stupidity, not just vanity, stupidity.

Creating the conditions and having the decency to move past the politics and the situational politics that is being advanced here in a more sustainable way.

The challenge has changed and now it's about Central America.

It's pure political theater. It's a perpetuation of a conversation like you and I are having that we're going to have every single day.

Everything they've tried to do from zero tolerance, everything, is making things worse, not better.

It is the federal government's responsibility. It is the federal government's role.

Well, he's certainly acting like it. He's certainly advancing policies that are intended to divide.

I think a lot of the actions that we've seen over the last few years, by definition are textbook, nativist textbook xenophobic, textbook racists in many respects.

I don't want to spar with the President of United States. I want to work with the President of United States. But I will take a backseat to no one to have the backs at the people of this remarkable place, I call home, the State of…

I think a lot of the actions that we've seen over the last three years by definition or textbook nativist - textbook xenophobic, textbook racists in many respects.

It is a national disgrace. It's not a national emergency.

The federal government should be doing this. It's a federal government's responsibility - immigration. These people came legally. I just want to pause and reflect on that. These are people that came through process legally, seeking asylum…

I think federal government cannot get its act together on comprehensive immigration reform.

Parents, not politicians, should decide what their kids eat, especially when it comes to spending their own money.

As Dr. King said -- I will paraphrase -- wait almost always means never. It's always the right time to try to do the right thing.

At the end of the day, the only people we can count on are ourselves, the voters of California.

It's inevitable that that's the same narrative of this.

At the end of the day, though, it's also the 55th anniversary of Brown versus the Board of Education. Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.

Good people can disagree, as Dr. King said, I'll paraphrase, 'wait almost always means never.' It's always the right time to try to do the right thing.

I don't know that it's a huge setback. I mean, candidly, most of the pundits, most of the people I talk to privately candidly expected the decision. It nonetheless was a very disappointing decision and one that we'll have to recover from.

I understand it's a tough issue. I have very strong convictions about this. They're not shared by the majority of the elected officials in Washington, D.C.