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

It takes no compromise to give people their rights

If I do a good job, people won't care if I am green or have three heads.

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.

Never take an elevator in city hall.

We don't want sympathetic liberals, we want gays to represent gays... I represent the gay street people-the 14-year-old runaway from San Antonio. We have to make up for hundreds of years of persecution. We have to give hope to that poor runaway kid from San Antonio. They go to the bars because churches are hostile. They need hope! They need a piece of the pie!

All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.