But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.

And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.

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.

Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight

They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages. Helping a kid who's getting beaten up in school is promoting homosexuality. If you gave me a million dollars, I wouldn't know how to promote homosexuality.

The people who started the American government, the founders of the Constitution, didn't like political parties but they were forced to start them. Nobody ever created political parties in England, they evolved. And there do tend to be two general tendencies that focus around how much government you think you need.