Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

Californians are worried about whether they will have a job along with ballooning federal spending and deficits.

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.

I'm happy to tell you that having been through surgery and chemotherapy and radiation, breast cancer is officially behind me. I feel absolutely great and I am raring to go.

I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.

I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.

People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.

When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.

I have very eclectic tastes.

A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.

To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?

Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.

Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'

I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'

Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.

If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.

What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.

I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year.

The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.

I am a conservative and proud of it.

I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.