Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.

If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.

Politics creates an almost endless time horizon into the future. ... As governor I had the incredible luxury of being able to dream on a grand scale. And this sense of infinite possibility gives politics its romance.

Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.

Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.

Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.

One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection.