I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.

The pace of change is so great, there is always something else going on. What that says to me is that you have to have strategic vision and peripheral vision. Strategic vision is the ability to look ahead and peripheral vision is the ability to look around, and both are important.

When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.

You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.

Well, I've been a Republican for all of my voting life.

Silos can't interoperate unless the technology does.

If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.