Winning a campaign means having beliefs, things that voters stand for, so people are compelled to come out and vote for you on Election Day.

We are excited about debating. We think the voters deserve to hear the differences between the two candidates.

We're building one of the strongest political organizations in the history of a California's governor's race. We've invested two years in putting together an organization that will be there after the June election.

There's no question that keeping up with a virtually self-funded campaign is going to be tough. We'll raise enough to be competitive.

There are short-term questions to be sure -- the impact of changes in residential housing markets and the prospects for inflation are two -- but, overall, the economy in 2006 seems likely to be very well-behaved.

We may be entering a period in which policy changes are even more dependent than they have been on current readings of the economy, with all the uncertainty such readings can bring.