Clearly, high energy prices will have a large negative effect on the California economy and could possibly drag the rest of the nation into a recession.

A safe, affordable and plentiful supply of food is a national security issue.

There are a lot of latchkey kids. I don't want to be sitting there when a guy blurts something out over the TV and have my daughters ask me what those words mean.

What does it mean to have a Republican majority in the House? A lot of people think So what? They should think again.

I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment.

When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to put the words in the legislation.

I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart.