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I don't think any of us are careful enough about emails. When you are writing an email, you should imagine yourself in an auditorium speaking to 5,000 people, with your mother and grandmother in the audience, and it is being broadcast on CNN.

Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states.

I had a personal email when I was in the Senate, as the vast majority of senators do. It was very convenient. I did all of my business on personal emails.

I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.

Every time you write an email, it is in the public domain. There are all these ways where security is not as good as people believe.

There's a big gap between 'Click the link to send an e-mail to your congressman' and 'Chain yourself to the White House.'

I am trying to send directions out and keep control of state government for the final month.

E-mails are the cancer of modern business.

State courts usually rule that correspondence between government officials, about government business, are public records, whether they use their government e-mail accounts or private ones.

While I have some regrets that this is my last opportunity to deliver a State of the State address, I appreciate and am humbled by the opportunities this great state has given me.