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.

People hate negative tactics, but the fact is, as the 3 a.m. ad demonstrates, they can be very effective.

When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this.

So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove.

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

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

I don't like cheap shots, I really don't.