Quote

Most of the fiction on the California Gold Rush makes it sound like one grand, boyish adventure. However, when you read the real history, you realize that it wasn't that way at all.

I was surprised at how cosmopolitan the Gold Rush was: prospectors were of all races, genders, and countries. I was equally surprised at how fast gold prospecting became big business.

One thing I'll tell you is the food in Sacramento is off the charts. You've got good Asian food, the farm system where everything is natural, which I believe in. I like organic.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington.

I think maybe L.A. or San Francisco could be rushed, but Sacramento is just laid back!

The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.

Woodstock was a business. A very poorly run business.

Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong.

I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.