We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.

California has the highest per capita rate of incarceration of any state - or it did until Proposition 36.

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

America has meant to the world a land in which the common man who means well and is willing to do his part has access to all the necessary means of a good life

I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty and freedom from discrimination. My concerns lie with the possible consequences of politically-driven legislation which claims to promote religious liberty but instead rolls back the legal protections held by LGBT Americans.

I'm about four skyscrapers behind.