To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

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

I certainly support civil unions.

Margaret Thatcher - a woman I greatly admire - once said that she was not content to manage the decline of a great nation. Neither am I. I am prepared to lead the resurgence of a great nation.

There's a whole company called Palantir that does nothing but derive and create algorithms riches to search through big data. We're not using their capabilities. For heaven's sake, some of this is just ineptitude.