Today, we are making a big leap forward in terms of focusing attention on prevention - were announcing the nations first comprehensive early alert system for earthquakes, were announcing the ability for millions and millions of Californians to download an app, MyShake... if millions of people do that, we will have points of contact, the ability to crowdsource information, the likes of which no country in the world has advanced.

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You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.

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You need to let go of your fear and anxiety of being judged by others.

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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.

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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.

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Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation.

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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.

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I'm sick and tired of politics and politicians as usual.

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

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Take responsibility. Step up and step in. Because at the end of the day, folks, we are our behaviors.

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You don't have to be something to do something.

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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.

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These Millennials are volunteering more; they're smarter than ever.

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If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.

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

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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.

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If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.

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At the end of the day, there's not a day that goes by without a mass shooting.

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While it was refreshing to finally see an openly gay man speak at a Republican convention, it doesn't remove the stain of selecting Mike Pence, America's most anti-LGBT governor.

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Make no mistake: conversion therapy is not about 'praying away the gay.' It's an emotional torture against our most innocent citizens: our children.

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