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“This budget plan programs massive spending obligations in the out-years. Two, it fails to adequately address in any meaningful way the state’s gargantuan wall of debt. Three, it diverts revenues from Prop. 30 to programs not within the public education profile, in direct contravention of voters’ intentions and desires when they narrowly supported Prop. 30 last fall. And lastly, borrowing against the AB32 account to support the state’s general fund represents more of the same fiscal shell game displayed in budgets of the past.” — Assemblyman Jeff Gorell, R-Camarillo.

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“It’s a compromise between the people who want to spend a little more and the people who want to spend a lot more.” — Assemblyman Brian Jones, R-Santee.

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“It begins the promise of returning our schools to the funding cuts that they experienced with the recession. Now, it does not begin the promise of restoring all of the programs that I would like to see … due to the free-fall of drop in revenues, but it does a great deal to address very essential needs of every Californian in this state.” — Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley.

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“If last year’s budget was a big fat lie, this year’s budget is a white lie.” — Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks.

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“I’m pleased that my colleagues have talked about a rainy day fund for several years, but unfortunately, it’s all talk.” — Assemblyman Curt Hagman, R-Chino Hills.

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“When you look at the way the majority party has approached this, we have outlined a blueprint for responsible budgeting with three core principles: First, maintaining fiscal discipline; second investing in the middle class; and third creating efficiencies and effectiveness in the operation of government, and this budget does that.” — Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles.

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“To hear my colleagues get up and embrace funds that they opposed and then suggest that they have a different approach really is laughable. It is absolutely laughable. To talk about the question of investing in education without talking about the fact that this budget pays back over $2 billion in deferrals that started under a Republican administration, let’s be clear, and a wall of debt that was grown to its greatest level under that same administration. The beginning of responsible budgeting in this state came when we moved to a simple majority consistent with 47 other states, to pass a budget and when we elected a governor who is not afraid to govern.”— Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles.

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“My caucus believes our responsibility is to represent the taxpaying citizens of California. That’s why we sit here and yet we feel that in this process, perhaps we did not have the opportunity to do that.” — Assembly Minority Leader Connie Conway, R-Tulare.

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FROM THE SENATE:

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“What a difference a year, a recovering economy and passage of Prop. 30 can make. This is probably the most encouraging and positive budget experience that I’ve had in my 11 years at the Capitol.” — Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco.

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“This budget is built upon a huge tax increase, Prop. 30, which by the way, voters thought it was completely going to education. In fact, this budget has only a third of that $6 billion generated going to education. So there is always the promise, the vision, the rosy scenario and then the reality left into the lower parts of a document we’re going to see in this budget.” — Sen. Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar.

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“I can prophetically tell you (the budget) will grow into unsupportable spending down the road because it’s built on the backs of high-income earners, and when you have that, you have a wildly fluctuating revenue source. ” — Sen. Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar.

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“The passage of the budget may just represent the end of one very difficult era and the beginning of a new and better era —an era of economic growth, hope and restoration. The people of California have had enough of doom-and-gloom. They’ve had enough of the recession. They’ve had enough of late budgets. They’ve had enough of unending deficits.” — Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento.

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“It is worth celebrating this achievement for about 24 hours. And then it is important to remember all the work we still have to do — to continue to grow the economy, balance the budget, to continue to innovate and for those in need. We ought to feel good, but only for a little while.” — Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento.

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“This budget does not pay down the wall of debt as much as I would have like. In fact, it reduces the repayment of education deferrals by $650 million. And it continues to borrow $500 million in the cap-and-trade program. Worse, this budget does not use all of Prop. 30 as was sold to the voters. That’s a shame. That’s no way for California to become a leader in education or the environment.” — Sen. Bill Emmerson, R-Redlands.

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“California is back.” — Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara.

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Associated Press writers Judy Lin and Juliet Williams contributed to this report.