The personal is political, but only to a point.

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

Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.

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

I cant begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much about the good coverage as the bad, because the more air they put in your balloon, the bigger the target when they start shooting.

Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To compare them to animals is an insult to animals. To expect that we can rehabilitate them assumes a will to change.

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.