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

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

One of the risks of a public trial is a public verdict.

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

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.

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.

In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins.