“I realized that I was, you know, over 60 years old, I grew up at a different time, and I was hung up about the word (marriage). I had all these gay friends, I had all these gay couple friends, and I was hung up about it. And I decided I was wrong. That our society has an interest in coherence and strength and commitment and mutually reinforcing loyalties, then if gay couples want to call their union marriage and a state agrees, and several have now, or a religious body will sanction it – and I don’t think the state should be able to stop the religious bodies from saying it – I don’t think the rest of us should get in the way of that. I think it’s a good thing, not a bad thing. … I just realized that I was, probably for, maybe just because of my age and the way I’ve grown up, I was wrong about that. I just had too many gay friends. I saw their relationships. I just decided I couldn’t, I had an untenable position.”

“I would take Rush Limbaugh, because it would be very painful, and he would come with the painkillers which he always has.”

“If you have been gay your whole life and feel that that’s the way God made you, God bless you. But I would still say that that doesn’t mean you should act on that. I would happen to say, for instance, that God made me with a pretty short temper. Now, I still think God loves me, but I can’t act on that. I would think that God made me with a particular soft spot in my heart for a martini. Now, I’d better be careful about that.”

“Obama is a Nazi. Feminism is destroying marriage and the military. Obama is Kenyan. Obama is Islamic. There are Russian-style czars in the U.S. government. There is a secret plan to unify North America into one nation. … These people are certifiable.”