Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed, gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.

There is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.

Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.

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.

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