It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.

There are millions of gay people in the United States, including well-known celebrities.

John Kerry didn't out me, nor did he offend or attack me by calling me a lesbian. I certainly couldn't be offended by the truth.

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.

The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.

Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.

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.

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

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.

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.

Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention.

It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.

It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.

Early numbers are always wrong.

Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.

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

I'd rather not be known as the Vice President's lesbian daughter.

I had to admit I'd pretty much failed at the whole low-profile thing.

I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay.

I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

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

I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.

Its always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.

To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in.

Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year.

As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.

I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.

Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member of my team served- that they would recognize that the taxpayer is boss.

The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children.

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.

Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

I loved my role on Who's the Boss? There is always some of me in every character that I play.

I've never wanted to be the boss.

That's my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I do is funny. And usually they don't.

We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.

My men and I have decided that our boss, the president of the United States, is as tough as woodpecker lips.

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

My boss told me to get my butt in gear. I told him I was shiftless.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

We started out as boss and player, and Wellington was almost like my father.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues.

OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.