The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not ent… - Barney Frank

The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out.

Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can't do anything because they're tied up in knots.

I do have things I would like to see adopted on behalf of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people: they include the right to marry the individual of our choice; the right to serve in the military to defend our country; and the right to a job based solely on our own qualifications. I acknowledge that this is an agenda, but I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people's rights to get married, join the army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.