In my judgment, we have to avoid, at all costs, tax increases. That would be the worst possible thing to do and will make a bad economy even worse. Beyond that, targeted tax relief should be expanded upon.

'Perfect' is the enemy of 'good enough'.

It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero.

Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.

I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake.

What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.