I want to spend 100 percent of my time focused on what I think I can make the biggest difference on as the governor of California. Meg Whitman Read Quote
You can’t stand for too many things. You can’t use the bully pulpit for too many things. So, I promise you, every day, I am going to talk about jobs, spending, and education. Meg Whitman Read Quote
You look at the tremendous success of Facebook. To my mind there is not a lot of commerce going on in these social networking sites. eBay is a community anchored in commerce. It is a commerce site that built a community around it. What has not been proven is if the reverse can happen and people will go to community sites to do commerce. Meg Whitman Read Quote
Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what’s happened I think we’re now in the dream-breaking business. Meg Whitman Read Quote
You know, I like to think that I will subscribe very much to the core Republican principles of small government. Making a small number of rules and getting out of the way. Keeping taxes low. Creating an environment for small businesses to grow and thrive. Meg Whitman Read Quote
I’m not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done. Meg Whitman Read Quote
I want to work with the teachers’ union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It’s not acceptable. Meg Whitman Read Quote
You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford. That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this. Meg Whitman Read Quote
Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen’s compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it. Meg Whitman Read Quote
Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we’ve got to streamline regulation so it’s easy, not hard, to do business. Meg Whitman Read Quote
