“I actually quit my job to do the show because they wouldn’t let me take a leave. I honestly don’t know what to do now. I don’t know. We’ll see.”

“Let me ask you something. As mayor of New York, would you live in an apartment with three gay guys? I’m not gay. I don’t hate gays. But I don’t want to live in an apartment full of them. They’ll bitch and cry and all. That doesn’t bother Giuliani. It doesn’t bother Giuliani to put a dress on to do Saturday Night Live. I don’t trust him. I don’t think he’s electable. ... Why do you break up with your wife and move in with gay guys?”

“It’s just as well I’m gay. If I was straight, I’d be a hopeless mad movie star who fucks everything that moves. That’s what I’d be like – married to every single girl that I’d worked with, on wife number 10 by now, always being sued for divorce because I’d been caught with two chicks somewhere. ... Or I’d be like a rapper – three girls at the same time, coke, orgies, yachts. I would be a monster, actually. I’d have to be competitive on a lad level with all those other male movie stars. I’d probably be an alcoholic, too. Mind you, I’d have made a lot more money – 20 times more money, probably.”

“There are too many moments these days when we cannot recognize our country. ... We can only hope that this time, unlike 2004, American voters will have the wisdom to grant the awesome powers of the presidency to someone who has the integrity, principle and decency to use them honorably. Then when we look in the mirror as a nation, we will see, once again, the reflection of the United States of America.”