This is an edited version of that discussion. We as Republicans have not been very good at helping and recruiting our women candidates and helping our women run for national office, especially. No, it is not, because there is no litmus test attached to it, there is no prerequisite. We just want more women in the Republican ranks.
Affirmative action is a real hot-button issue across the country, especially in California.
There are very strong feelings, but I think we need to move slowly in changing that, that the time has come to move away from the hard-core affirmative action tactics that we have used in the past. But it doesn't have to be overnight. We don't have to have quotas. We don't have to have percentage factors always involved. We have to use incentives and encouragement as opposed to hard and fast law, and I think those kinds of things can work as well, if not even better.