I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.

Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.

If you want to be angry at Gore, be angry at him for not fighting harder in Florida.

I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.

Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously.

Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there's no telling what you will find.

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.

I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

I think the Democratic Party has the chronic problem of appearing to be weak, of not standing and fighting for what it believes in, not fighting for its own.

When your opponent is drowning, throw the son of a bitch an anvil.

You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan.

We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.

The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.

But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.

The only thing I'm running for is the state line.

You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.

When you dehumanize a group theres lasting consequences because they know that theyre being dehumanized.

You can only accomplish extraordinary things by involving excellent people who can do things that you cannot.

When you become famous being famous becomes your profession.

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didnt have to get one.

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.

The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.

I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.

I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.

I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.

In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

My mom doesn't get the whole gay thing, but she loves me.

When I first started editing GQ, it gave the impression of being, and in fact was, a gay magazine. There were female models in it and there were women on the cover, but the boys were always much, much more beautiful than the girls.

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.

I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals.

I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - people are people.

There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected.

Straight people say, 'You know you're just gay,' and gay people say, 'You know you're just gay.' There is such a thing as bisexual!

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!

And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.

And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.

It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.

There's nothing wrong with being gay. I have plenty of friends who are going to hell.

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies.

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.