Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.

The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.

What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.

There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.

A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life.