We need a different kind of leadership in the White House that understands how to get bureaucracies competent again.

As president, I will take that common ground and sign the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. I will stop allowing taxpayer money to fund Planned Parenthood. And I will support those pregnancy centers and women's health clinics around the country that are actually serving their communities.

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

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.

National security is a place where the private sector could be helpful because the government is woefully behind the technology curve. But secondly, the bureaucratic processes that have been in place since 9/11 are woefully inadequate as well.

Customers are still setting the technology agenda. Not just you, our customers, but your customers as well. What more and more are telling you is what kind of services they need, and how and when they want those services delivered to them. And in fact, that is just the beginning.

I am a conservative and proud of it.