Out of the bars and into the streets!

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

It's not my victory, it's yours and yours and yours. If a gay can win, it means there is hope that the system can work for all minorities if we fight. We've given them hope.

To sit on the front steps — whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city — and to talk to our neighborhoods is infinitely more important than to huddle on the living-room lounger and watch a make-believe world in not-quite living color.

I finally reached the point where I knew I had to become involved or shut up.

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

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted. I have a lot more to drink. For that reason, the political numbers game will be played. I know the rules of their game now and how to play it.