Do what you love and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a successful career.

Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.

My view is that, just as in many businesses, brands really matter. There will always be a role for destination sites. Eighty million users come to our destination. I think that will be the vast majority of our future business.

Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community.

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.

Do what you love and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a successful career.

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.