One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.

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.

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

Voter apathy is a civic abdication.

There are no 'come shoot me' clothes.

Elections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want.

I had set about trying to make myself more polished than a country boy would be.