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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.