This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.

Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.

There is a correlation between people who attack same-sex marriage and have difficulty maintaining their own.

We don't get ourselves dry cleaned.

These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis.

There is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.