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

The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller.

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.

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

Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together.

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.