Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.

So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists.

What goes for sex goes double for politics.

When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.

I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir.

Once he became president, George [H.] Bush revealed a vein of Styrofoam and no matter how deep he tried to go, he always ended up bobbing on the surface. His inaugural speech was like being present at the death of language.