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.

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.

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

The personal is political, but only to a point.

Loyalty isn't standing by someone when he's right - that's good judgment. Loyalty is standing by someone when he's wrong.

Are Republican women politicians more feminine than Democratic women politicians?

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