I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope.

The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods.

I cannot prevent anyone from getting angry, or mad, or frustrated. I can only hope that they'll turn that anger and frustration and madness into something positive, so that two, three, four, five hundred will step forward, so the gay doctors will come out, the gay lawyers, the gay judges, gay bankers, gay architects I hope that every professional gay will say 'enough', come forward and tell everybody, wear a sign, let the world know. Maybe that will help.

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country.

I like to sit in the window and watch the cute boys walk by.

If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.

I ask for the movement to continue, for the movement to grow, because last week I got a phone call from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and my election gave somebody else, one more person, hope. And after all, that's what this is all about. It's not about personal gain, not about ego, not about power - it's about giving those young people out there in the Altoona, Pennsylvanias, hope. You gotta give them hope.