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I'm a baseball freak.
Yes, Bill Clinton is a big flirt.
It's a lot easier to opine from the sidelines.
To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.
The first time I met Bill Clinton was actually 1988.
Clinton had absolutely zero honeymoon, none whatsoever.
The Obamas have changed the culture of the White House.
No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.
I think a lot of presidents learn to be president by being president.
If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.
Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.
Women have to be the biggest champions in the world of other women's choices.
President Barack Obama would do well to take a page or two from Clinton's playbook.
Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.
I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more.
The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.
I don't think women hold all the answers, but with their skills, their strengths, we can get to a better place.
Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.
Clinton's resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out.
The fight is always the same within the Democratic Party, isn't it? The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.
I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.
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.
Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known.
Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!'
Women's particular experiences continue to shape not just their points of view but their actions, in the United States and around the world.
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.
1992 became known as the 'Year of the Woman' because so many of us were elected to public office that November, including a record six to the United States Senate.
Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.
Throughout his presidency, Clinton made a point of getting close - physically and emotionally - to the people whose problems his administration was working to solve.
I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad - experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there's no question women are paid less. Women don't ask.
Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.
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.
One thing I think is least realistic is that there were five people that made decisions in the fictional 'West Wing.' In real life, there are about five million people that weigh in.
It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.
There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish.
In a way I think Bill Clinton is more likely to forgive and move on or at least try to woo people who don't love him. But he never really tried to woo the press as much as he might have.
We don't take credit for our accomplishments. I can't tell you how many times you'll say to a woman, 'Oh God, what you did was so great', and they say, 'Really? I didn't think it was that good.'
People are inevitably disappointed, because no one's as good as Bill Clinton's first impression. Or, he's done things. He's disappointed people in a variety of ways. And so then, the fall is hard.
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.
In the run-up to the 1992 Democratic convention, Clinton's campaign realized that voters thought the young governor had a privileged upbringing. They didn't buy his alleged concern for the middle class.
You can't leave out half the world's experience and expect to address all the problems. Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.
It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.
Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's sometimes needy, often undisciplined, emotionalism.
That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.
The thing about looking back over Clinton's presidency, and probably anybody's presidency, is that when you look back, the events all line up in a way that makes sense. At the time, you don't know where it's going.
As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.
As women have played an increasingly important role in politics, there is no question that they've brought a different perspective, focusing attention on a broader set of issues and building alliances with other women.
I look forward to a time, in the not so distant future, when we no longer look forward to 'firsts' as milestones women have yet to achieve, but we look back on them as historic events that continue to teach and inspire.
This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.