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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.