We currently have a government planning to go to Mars, heal broken marriages, and build bridges to nowhere - and also one that cannot wage a war competently, cannot respond to a hurricane adequately, and cannot enforce borders. Is it too much to ask that it get the basic things right before embarking on grandiose schemes?

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

My father has been a rock for me every since.

What's great about it is that you see, the great struggle for gay people is that the politics is just not going to work for us.

I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.

I think very few people are gay. I'm a two-percenter myself.

I'm gay. I always have been and I always will be, and I'm happy.