May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home.

One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.

While women were powerfully liberated both externally as well as internally by the feminism of the 1970s, we made some serious mistakes as well.

I want a woman president - really, I do.

I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?

Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.