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.

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.

The best antidote to prejudice is reality.

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can’t do anything because they’re tied up in knots.

I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal.

There were a lot of Romneys. There's the Romney who was going to be better on gay rights than Ted Kennedy; now there's a Romney who checks with Rick Santorum on that issue.