I don't like cheap shots, I really don't.

Even the most powerful women I know go out of their way to say that they're not really interested in power. Imagine a man saying that.

Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.

When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this.

But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early.

When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?

So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove.