Ray Haynes Quotations

the arrogance of this body in completely ignoring the resolution of a lawsuit (that was settled) in a way that was agreeable to both parties.

We are being asked to engage in a great social experiment, and the results of that experiment, if it is a failure, will be visited upon our children.

Why don't we just make sure and change the law, and if the governor then refuses to call the state of emergency, then we have something to fight about,

I don't think (the trip) embarrasses the governor. I think it makes Fabian look foolish.

Engaging in social experimentation with our children is not the role of the legislature,

You get a passing visit, but you don't get anything substantive, because Fox knows that Fabian can't do anything. ... He's working at counter purposes with the governor, it seems to me.

We are throwing the dice and taking a huge gamble, and we are gambling with the lives and future of generations not yet born, he added.

Most of the Senate and Assembly education committees are wholly owned subsidiaries of the California teachers union, ... Any bill they oppose dies.

Politics is all about getting and keeping power, and in politics, the professionals in the business soon learn that the only way to get and keep power is to force people to talk to them. A full-time legislature thinks of more and more things to regulate and discuss.