If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by bigotry and discrimination, then you have no choice but to be present and accounted for when it comes to standing up for gays and lesbians in our society.

The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work.

I'm actually a fairly conservative person. I live a very conservative lifestyle.

In some states, you can vote a straight party ticket, but you can't vote for individual candidates.

No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.

I've made a lot of enemies in all the right places, and there aren't enough hours in the day to respond to either the well-financed corporate hacks or the lowly stalkers who seek to libel me or make a buck off the fact that I'm a well-known person.