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 believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything?

When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate...because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the sinking of the Titanic. And it made me very grateful at the time that he had not gone down in a plane crash.

A leader can`t move a country that`s not ready. You can`t make the waves, but when you see them coming, you can help direct them.

The fact that theyre a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that its National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.

NATO was a wonderful idea. It was formed in 1949. We are as far away from NATO as NATO was when it was done in time from the presidency of Grover Cleveland.

But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.