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.

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.

In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins.

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

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

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