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

The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.

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.

I don't think Donald Trump is the right person because I very much disagree with him.

Ronald Reagan got a lot of democrats. I wish he hadn`t. I got to Congress with Reagan coming to the Whitehouse. The Reagan Program, a very radical one, a very drastic one passed because he had a lot of democrats. He worked at it personally and also because Reagan retained a popularity.

Donald Trump has done more for getting people to understand the importance of public policy that respond to public needs in an affirmative way than anything we could have done on our own.

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.