In California, it's hard to buy all the media, no matter how much money you raise or spend, because it's such a huge state.

Improve human intelligence to get Osama bin Laden.

All interested parties must be willing to make significant sacrifices.

I am confident, with the leadership and the backing of the American people, President Obama will turn this country around.

In the Washington soft money game, big business and big labor are accomplices working together to protect the mushy middle of big government, with plenty of special interest plums: Big unions get big spending and big business gets corporate welfare and special tax breaks - all at the expense of average Americans.

I can tell you that I think America is safer today than it was on 9/11. But that doesn't mean that we don't have a long way to go.

I think we need to address greenhouse gas emissions. But I try to get involved in issues where I see a legislative result... So I just leave the issue alone because I don't see a way through it, and there are certain fundamentals, for example nuke power, that people on the left will never agree with me on. So why should I waste my time when I know the people on the left are going to reject nuclear power?