Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids.

I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado.

In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.

After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.

Early numbers are always wrong.

Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.

I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.