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If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.

I think higher education is over-regulated.

You can look at the state of California, which is on a pathway to destruction because they expanded government too much, thinking that there would always be someone to pay for it.

I think higher ed in the U.S. is fairly healthy, and by global standards it dominates, and it makes people more productive. But a lot of our K-12 is a disaster. And the single most important reform would just be to fire the worst ten or 15 percent of teachers in the lot, and we would have massive improvements.

To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada.

Lead levels exceeding federal thresholds pose a serious public health threat, particularly for more vulnerable populations.