I was introduced to the world of modern food production in the mid-1990s, while researching an article about California's strawberry industry for the 'Atlantic Monthly.'
Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.
I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.
I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy!
My family belongs to a tennis club in Valencia, California, so I always go there. I play a lot of tennis with my dad and swim. And I like to go to the gym there.
My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a homemaker, and she was vice-president of the Democratic Council of California back in the '50s.
I always wanted to be a Californian. In my wildest dreams, I always liked California - it's the place where oranges grows on trees! Fruit just falls off the trees.
California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
I certainly have a sliver of me, which is definitely American, and feels a great pull towards where I spent time when I was very young, which is in California.
California is lucky, the East Coast is lucky because we get great seafood and a lot of produce from Florida, locally in good weather, but in the winter we have to buy it.
Texas has done a very good job of securing their borders with the help of the federal government. California has done a good job.
Here in California, it's living the life, going to school, playing sports and hanging out with my friends. But, when I'm in North Carolina, its all work, work, work.
In California, I do like to just chill out and go to the beach, but I love the energy here. I feel very productive when I'm in New York.
There are still states that have not evolved so much as California, that still skimp on recognition and, even worse, the rights of immigrants.
Obviously the Senate is a federal office, but to get California's economy moving again we need to do some things in the federal arena.
California, in a sense, is almost Starbucks' largest country, with almost 3,000 stores.
It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.
As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.
Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.
I won the youth vote in Massachusetts and in California. I did very well with it in Ohio.
I lived in Arizona, and I thought Florida was in California because I thought oranges came from the same place.
