You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.

The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.

Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.

The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.

Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.