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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.