Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.

This isn’t really a convention, This is really an infomercial. And every night we’ll have a different infomercial and people view it with a certain level of cynicism.

If you want to put women in the White House, people have to start changing their view of what the president looks like, … We’ve had one after another handsome, white, male chief executives.

Gore’s problem is that the issues are all on his side.

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...

[But his style was always a lightning rod for criticism.] He was as tough and as competitive as you get in politics, … He played a very hard-nosed game. He did what worked.

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

Women are not required in general to be named in rape cases because of the stigmas that go with being a rape complainant, and frankly, special burdens that rape complainants often face.

What kind of feminist are you, writing a diet book, telling women to be thin? Aren’t you just playing into men’s notions?

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

What does Hollywood think of George Bush? How much is Hillary hated by the Christian Coalition?

I’ve been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.

[Organizers hoped to raise $75,000, but the take was] close to double that, … tremendous amount of money.

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...

I imagine quite a few people in the White House Project are willing to be stalking horses for Condi as well,

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

A lot of Republicans are white Christians, but the Republican Party is reaching out to Hispanics, and reaching out to blacks, and reaching out to Asians.

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.

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

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...

But here’s my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don’t wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it...

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...

Everybody knows I’m a Democrat.

There are a lot of guys on both campaigns, on all the campaigns now, who do some very questionable lobbying on behalf of very questionable interests and do things that trouble me a whole lot...