Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.

While the word bisexual was technically correct, I would only slowly come to use it to refer to myself in part because of the derisive connotations. But, in addition, it would seem to me woefully inadequate and impressionistically inaccurate.

A lie is like a cat: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or it’s really hard to catch.

Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we have faltered.

Voter apathy is a civic abdication.

Different is not deviant, no matter what the world may say. You have the moral obligation to love yourself.

There can be moments in your life where you may feel attracted to someone depending on circumstance, depending on the person of one gender or another, and sometimes where that is less of an influence in your life.