“During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense ...” — Gavin Newsom Quote

“During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.”

“If, in this country, a simple majority of people can start stripping away the rights of a protected class in the minority, that's a pretty alarming thing.”

“As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.”

“I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.”

“You can love me or hate me and disagree with me, but you sure as hell know where I stand.”

“If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.”

“If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transformed in a political sense, for the course of their history and the needs of their inhabitants so require.”

“To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.”

“Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of Islam. They're told: 'Malala is not a Muslim, she's not in purdah, she's working for America.'”

“I don't fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people.”

“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”

“If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.”