Women have to be the biggest champions in the world of other women's choices.

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.

Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe.

Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known.

Clinton's resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out.

I know I made plenty of mistakes in my tenure. But one of the things that you learn is to be very careful and to protect yourself down the road a little bit, which is to say you've got to think ahead and think where is the story going to go? What are all the possible outcomes? And how do I protect the president from unexpected twists and turns in the road?

Yes, Bill Clinton is a big flirt.