Joe Nation Quotations

Several questions concerning the status of veteran's benefits, the construction of veteran's homes, and suitable mental health services face our veteran population and necessitate action, ... As chair of the Assembly committee on veterans affairs I will fight to provide first-rate care for California's 2.5 million veterans and will pursue increased benefits for the brave men and women serving in the California National Guard.

I am dismayed the governor decided to veto a voter-oriented, good government piece of legislation, ... However, I understand this bill would have adversely affected his govern-by-initiative approach by forcing paid signature gatherers to reveal their true identity to voters.

I believe we have a responsibility to provide as much information to the public as possible, ... That knowledge presents each of us with the power to make informed choices about issues that affect our lives and those of future generations.

Here we are, before there's even been a shovel put into the earth, and we're already effectively 31 percent over budget, ... They're downsizing it by 25 percent, and with that, acknowledging a 6 percent increase.

I think this is the first of many cost overruns on this project, ... I think this is only the beginning, and that's why they've scaled back to 768 cells.

We want to ask the departments of corrections and finance to explain their rationale in continuing to push for a project that continues to break the bank and doesn't make any fiscal sense,

The facts in this case are clear, ... This expansion of death row is a short-term solution; we'll be back to where we started in just a few years.

Too often, the initiative process has been used to address critical and often technical issues that should be addressed by the Legislature,

This is a big difference between the two of us.

It's not my job to determine what the re-use will be, ... My job is to determine whether this is the right investment for California.

doesn't make any sense at all for a state that doesn't have money to spare or to waste.

Certainly, you can ask someone if they're a paid signature gatherer, ... but it makes it so much easier if they simply have a badge. We need to be as up-front with people as we can about who exactly is paying for these initiatives and who is paying for the signature gathering.

I don't think we can get there without any pain.