If you care deeply about a cause and you are then engaged on behalf of that cause in an activity that makes you feel very good and very brave and you're really in solidarity with all your friends, and you're enjoying it, you're probably not advancing the cause very much, because you're spending all your time with people you agree with cheering each other on and not engaging.

I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal.

Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.

While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.

I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.

The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out.

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.