Tim Hodson Quotations

I feel sorry for the organizers. How do you decide to commemorate a human tragedy that could repeat itself any time?

He's going to have to placate those guys or otherwise nothing gets done.

He dug himself into a hole with the special election. He's out of the hole now. He's not back on top of the mountain, but he's out of the hole.

Union issues by and large are payroll issues, which are very visible in the state budget and in turn make it easier to demonize. But it's a very one-sided argument to attack labor as if there is no such thing as corporate contributions.

The special election may be an albatross today, but it won't necessarily be one in 2006. If even one of his initiatives passes in November, the governor could declare victory.

Schwarzenegger, like Brown and Wilson, could certainly make a comeback and be re-elected.

If none passes, he could do a public mea culpa and promise a new approach as Bill Clinton did in Arkansas when he won back the governor's office after being defeated for re-election.

It's part of the mythology, which is: The place didn't exist before I got here. Back home, you were Norma Jean. In California, it's Marilyn Monroe.

It's important to remember there were many factors contributing to the budget and energy problems over which he had no control.

It's a real problem. How do you commemorate a disaster, the basic nature of which the city tried to deny for decades, and an event that could basically happen again at any time?