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

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.

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

I wish I had time to explain everything I did. Almost everything was done with an eye on the GLBT movement...last week I got a phone call from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and the voice was young, my election gave one more young person, hope

All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job.

Never take an elevator in city hall.

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.