It's important not to limit the amount of their own money that candidates can spend, but to give other people access to enough money to run competitive races.
Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate.
Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.
But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies.
We're fortunate in my family because we really have three families: my brother, David, and me; the two boys, Cooper and Marston, from my dad's second marriage; and my dad's wife, Crystal.
I've had this conversation with friends who have had challenging relationships with one or another parent. The only thing I can say is what I feel: The other person isn't going to change. That is who they are.
With someone who is genuinely abusive or a bad person, you should just get out of town. But if they're being the best person they know how to be, then you have to decide if there isn't much there you can love and not become consumed with what they're not able to give you.
I'm not much of a 'road not taken' person.
I like dressing sexy, and I like having a good time.
Honestly, in retrospect, it probably was a little easier being an adolescent and not having people immediately know that Hef was my dad.
Relationships between men and women have become much more complicated.
I think I've established my own identity here at Brandeis.
Before I went to work for 'Playboy,' I planned to apply to Yale to get a public policy master's. I felt drawn to go into politics. Even before that, my dream was to wind up either in the Senate or on the Supreme Court. I had big dreams as a little girl.
It's so deeply disturbing to me that half of the eligible voters don't vote in this country. We talk about how divided the country is. The truth is, we don't even know. We just know what the half that voted thought.
In any endeavor, you have to understand your tolerance for risk. What's a failure you can afford?
I think this country is growing up a little bit.
I never thought I was going to go to work for my father's company.
Try not to be either intimidated by or a captive of jargon. Even though it's language, and language is about communication, it often exists actually to obfuscate and to control power and not to communicate.
If you ever get to a point where you stop learning, you will find your professional options and your personal satisfaction severely curtailed.
Women would all be better off if we realized we didn't have to choose between being an intelligent being and a sexual being.
