California quotes

California's power to cloud men's minds must never be Baldwin forgot.Under its spell we submitted foreight yearstothe governance of Ronald Reagan, who had trouble distinguishing history from old movie plots.

- Russell Wayne Baker
  'Don't Look Back', in the NewYork Times,1  Aug.

California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.

- Raymond Chandler
  The Little Sister, ch.13.

This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.

-Woody (Woodrow Wilson) Guthrie
  'This Land isYour Land'.