The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.

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

Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together.

I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.

Half of me knows too much to be carefree. But the other half knows enough to be grateful.

The Democratic chairman doesn't need to be a household name. Most people didn't know who Ron Brown was when he was chairman of the Democratic Party, but he put the party in a position where Bill Clinton could come in and he had a solid base to run from.

The personal is political, but only to a point.