I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.

I understand how the economy actually works.

When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.

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?