I do not believe being gay or lesbian is a choice.

If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect. We won't know what to fight for.

Our government shouldn't make promises we cannot keep, but we must keep the promises we've already made.

Democracy is hard work.

I think I have an ongoing conversation with God. I think throughout the day, I'm constantly asking myself questions about what I'm doing, why am I doing it.

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.