My idea of what was going on in politics was driven by activism. I came out when I was 17, and right away I started working in the AIDS activist movement. For me, politics was about getting drugs approved and getting prisoners access to the same kind of drugs that you could get on the outside. It was about getting needle exchanges approved. That was politics. These were policy problems that were killing people, and we were trying to get them changed.

Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.

If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.

As secretary of state you can go out in a helmet if you want to. Even in Switzerland in front of reporters.

It makes sense in that environment that you would hold on in the U.S. government to the people who know their way around this particular block.

Bernie Sanders are the only person who talks about the kinds of things that might be driving people to support Donald Trump in such large numbers in the Republican Party.