Brown states his position

"It’s always late, it’s always in the red, and it’s always wrong.”

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"No more smoke and mirrors on the budget. No more puffy slogans and platitudes. You deserve the truth, and that’s what you’ll get from me.”

  On taxes:

"In this time of recession when people are financially strapped, there’ll be no new taxes unless you the people vote for them.”

  On government spending:

"We have to downsize state government from Sacramento and return decisions and authority to the cities, to the counties and to local schools.”

  On partisan gridlock:

"The partisanship is poisonous. Political posturing has replaced leadership. ... Today, the political breakdown in Sacramento is threatening jobs, our schools and the state’s credit rating, which is the worst in the country.”

  On his experience:

"Our state is in serious trouble, and the next governor must have the preparation and the knowledge and the know-how to get California working again. That’s what I offer.”

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"Some people say that if you’ve been around the process, you can’t handle the job, that we need to go and find an outsider who knows virtually nothing about state government. Well, we tried that, and it doesn’t work. We found that not knowing is not good.”