And Clinton was like that - he saw the whole playing field. He didn't just see the event that he was at or the circumstances of that week or that month. He saw the whole playing field all the time.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.

Clinton had absolutely zero honeymoon, none whatsoever.

I was supposed to be authoritative, but at the same time had to be likeable, a quality that is a bonus, not a requirement, for men in the same position.

Yes, Bill Clinton is a big flirt.

Women have to be the biggest champions in the world of other women's choices.

Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe.

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!'

To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

A heroic act is not always followed by glory and parades and forever freedom, ” she said. “It’s often small, disregarded, or forgotten. But it matters.

What happens this weekend stays between us. We set the rules.

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.

Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

As you get older, your voice changes, as well. Your voice should be able to last as long as you last.

I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends.

All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.

Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.

Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.