People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.

Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.

If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.

Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.

But I think what we're coming to grips with is the fact that we actually have a mercenary Army, and it doesn't have a nice ring to it. We call it 'volunteers', but we're basically paying people to serve their country. And if you're going to pay people and have a mercenary Army, you're going to have to pay the market rate. And so the bounties are going up—more money for tuition, higher enlistment bonuses—and I think it's appropriate.

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.