I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

I was raised by a formidable woman. She always pushed me to be competitive in a man's world. That's maybe one of the attractions to journalism in the beginning. It was a male profession, and I was comfortable in that.

I see bright kids trapped in public schools that are just warehousing them. As an educator this makes me scared. As Secretary of State, this makes me terrified.

So many people don't know who's on the State Seal and they don't know, not just in California but the United States of America, things they look at every day and they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that.'

The big thing is that if you don't try something, you'll always wonder. What could that have been like? What if...?

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.