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

Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.

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.

People don't vote for vice president, they vote for president.

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

I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.

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