My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

These members have to go back and face parents and students in their district, and they are going to have to explain their votes. These bills are unpopular, and you have a wide range of groups -- from the NAACP to women's groups to poverty groups working on this.

In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly.

We don't have to guess what Mitt Romney would have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we should let foreclosures - and I quote - 'hit the bottom' so the market could - I quote - 'run its course.'

My parents were both entrepreneurs.

Both of my parents were musicians.