If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

I'm a preservationist, I believe in preserving history intact, but I also enjoy the technological advances which have been made.

As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.

We have the history of slavery or inequality to women, and now the civil rights movement of the 21st century is the struggle for equality for the gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people. And I think it's important for Americans to know about the times that we failed.

I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it would be open to all, and He would be the last to refuse service to anyone. It is, simply put, the most un-Christian of notions.

Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.

By seeing a same-sex couple in ordinary situations, that it might make people think twice about if they have, you know, questions about acceptance of LGBT equality, it's one way to just say that, you know, 'We're members of your family and gay people are like anybody else.'