My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

I'm never surprised by controversies that are whipped up in Washington.

What I've seen in my own life is that when I get something important done it's because of a lot of other people - some who get credit, some who don't.

California is our biggest economy. California is our biggest agricultural producer. So what happens here matters to every working American.

The single biggest threat that we face is a nuclear weapon or some weapon of mass destruction. What that means is that we have to be extraordinarily aggressive and vigilant in controlling nuclear proliferation.

I think that the issues we have with science these days are not restricted to what's happening with respect to religion. There are a lot of very religious scientists around.

Generally speaking, Rand Paul is been more wrong than right. He has an isolationist view of the world that I don`t share.