I smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy.

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

If Bob Barr (conservative republican congressman from Georgia) caught on fire and I was holding a bucket of water, it would be great act of discipline to pour it on him. I would do it, but I'd hate myself in the morning.

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

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 wouldn't want [gay marriage] to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current court.

We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.