I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook.

The American dream belongs to all of us.

I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.

I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.

Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

You don't have to care about children to care about children. One of the things that I talk a lot about is the fact of the importance of third-grade reading level. By the end of third grade, if the child is not at reading level, it'll drop off. They never catch up.