We need an employer verification system that works so that we can hold employers accountable.

Californians are worried about whether they will have a job along with ballooning federal spending and deficits.

People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.

I think our nation is at a pivotal point. Too many people fear that we are losing the sense of limitless possibility that has always defined this nation.

We've mismanaged going into Iraq.

I have been tested. I have beaten breast cancer. I have buried a child. I started as a secretary. I fought my way to the top of corporate America while being called every B word in the book. I fought my way into this election and on to this debate stage while all the political insiders and the pundits told, "it couldn't be done."

It's that government bureaucracies crush innovation. We are falling further and further behind in our government.