“I am going to be tonight very strongly on the side of those who are fighting for a legal frame in which they can develop their relationship normally in their lives. In other words, gay marriage – yes, please! Absolutely yes!”

“Some gay activist in California called for mass civil disobedience until we get the right to marry. God! What could be more dreary? Our movement has become about lusting for weddings and lavender picket fences. It’s so embarrassing – I feel like turning in my gay card.”

“You have to look at what Bush does, not what he says. Talk is cheap. He expresses empathy for military families and then cuts their benefits. He names a proposal ‘The Clear Skies Initiative’ that pollutes the planet. He says he’ll be a uniter and then drives us apart. He steals the slogan ‘No Child Left Behind’ and then breaks his promise to fund his reforms. Truly, I stand here flabbergasted at what is going on in today’s world. Never in my life have I witnessed a President and an administration that is so out of step with the needs of the country, so threatening to our future and so abusive in its use of power.”