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.

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 rights of the people who have done terrible things are hard to defend. You have to keep pointing out, the question is the process to determine whether they've done the terrible things.

I can tell you about health care and also about the financial reform bill. The Barack Obama, the President personally and his administration officials at his direction were very much involved.

Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

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

Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn't have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.