Gavin Newsom Quotes

We live in the public eye, so if one of us makes a mistake, it affects everyone, which makes me think about what I'm doing in life more.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

I've been criticized for the things I chose and things I've chosen to do.

When you make bad decisions bad things happen. And it was so simple. You know, the decisions you make are going to become the life that you live!

Being in the public eye and basically growing up in the spotlight, we are always responsible for our actions.

You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.

You never want to do anything that you don't want your mother to see, because it will haunt you and eventually come back to bite you!

It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

I live my life and I do what I do, and sometimes you forget that people are watching you.

Whenever you do anything public, you open yourself up to be criticized.

I try to stay in line and not be a jerk. I've always been conscious that if I really screw up, people might notice.

I am in the public eye, and I accept that my actions may be open to question.

I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.

That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I thought was right, that I thought it was cool, and I thought it was fun, and it was exciting at the time. It all led to me laying in a prison bunk by myself with no one to talk to but myself.

Many of our choices have led to the predicaments we are presently complaining about.

People can judge me for what I've done. And I think when somebody's out in the public eye, that's what they do. So I'm fully comfortable with who I am, what I stand for, and what I've always stood for.

I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with... what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff.

You can't be ashamed of the work you've done. You make a decision, and then you have to live with the consequences.

Everyone makes mistakes, and they never go unnoticed when you're in the public eye.

There are different things I've done that I wouldn't do again that kept following me. That's the price that you pay when you make mistakes early on.

It's hard to regret making the choice that you think is right.

As a person, I think you should assume the responsibilities of your actions.

I have to accept the trouble I've got into, a lot of it has been either decisions I've made or probably not thought long and hard enough about.

Every man writes his manner. I just made poor decisions.