California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is where the car found its earliest and fullest expression, where suburbs blossomed, where going to gym replaced going to church, where forces that lead so many to assume that direct democracy is the wave of the future - declining political parties, telecommuting, new technology, the internet generation 0 are all most well developed in this vast land.

My friends all say I’m going to be Secretary of State, [but] I don’t see how that would be much different from the job I have now

I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.

But now, we are becoming suspicious of the very things we have long celebrated - free markets, trade, immigration, and technological change. And all this is happening when the tide is going our way. Just as the world is opening up, America is closing down.

The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai.

I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.

The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.