As a Baptist minister, I don't have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way

I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.

I haven't done the things I've done to be in a sitcom.

I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.

They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.

Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.