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.

I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

We also need to reduce corporate tax rates. This applies to small, medium and large businesses. At 35 percent, we have the second highest corporate rates in the world. It restricts the growth of small enterprises that need to plow capital back into their businesses and forces companies and jobs to move overseas.

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.

When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable.

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

You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.