Gray Davis Quotes

• Why? Because we’re very well down this process as it is – flawed as it is – and we’re counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.

  Gray Davis

• Well, we’re trying to patch and fix and put a cast on a broken system here. You can call it what you want, but we’ll continue to purchase power in a private market.

  Gray Davis

• Well, there’s no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market.

  Gray Davis

• We’re not going to take this sitting down. We are fighting back.

  Gray Davis

• We’re going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.

  Gray Davis

• We’ll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we’ll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don’t have today.

  Gray Davis

• We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built.

  Gray Davis

• We believe you will not have to pay more than the current rate structure proposes – which is, for 50 percent of the public, nothing; for another 25 percent, only a 10 percent increase; and for the remaining 25 percent, a 34 percent increase.

  Gray Davis

• They’re the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and they will not do that. They will not pull the trigger.

  Gray Davis

• There’s no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America, and to contribute to its technological productivity.

  Gray Davis

• There is only one governor, and his name is Gray Davis.

  Gray Davis

• There are so many scenarios here. We tried to prepare for the worst summer in 40 years and build assumptions based on that. We’re preparing for the worst, but we’re hoping for the best. And I’ve told people the end is in sight.

  Gray Davis

• So it was flawed in that it didn’t require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.

  Gray Davis

• Now, in the space of a year, we’ve spent 450 percent more for power than we did the year before, and bought essentially the same amount of power. This year, that number’s likely to go up. That can’t go on forever and have us continue to be the economic engine for America.

  Gray Davis

• Meanwhile, people have to join us and fight back against the federal government that has dropped the ball, that is in bed with these energy companies, that wants them to make more money than they’ve made before.

  Gray Davis

• I’m doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California.

  Gray Davis

• I know that Duke made a number of demands, including that the attorney general drop its investigation. We have no intention of asking the attorney general to do that.

  Gray Davis

• I have not been briefed.

  Gray Davis

• I don’t know why they’re doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don’t understand the severity of the problem in this state.

  Gray Davis

• I don’t know if I would do this if I had to start over again.

  Gray Davis

Gray Davis (23)

Birth:	26th December, 1942
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Governor, Politician

About

Gray Davis is an American Democratic politician who served as California's 37th Governor from 1999 until being recalled in 2003. Prior to serving as Governor, Davis served as Chief of Staff to Governor Jerry Brown, a California State Assemblyman, California State Controller and the 44th Lieutenant Governor of California. Davis holds a B.A. in history from Stanford University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. He was awarded a Bronze Star for his service as a Captain in the Vietnam War.

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