“The nation’s commitment to human rights requires that lawmakers revisit ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ the current policy that prevents lesbians, gays and bisexuals from serving openly in our armed forces. … ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is the only law in America today that regulates a group of citizens then prohibits them from identifying themselves and speaking up on their own behalf. Gay soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines are unable to tell their Member of Congress or their commander that the policy is an abject failure and they are living proof because they will face discharge. Those who defend our liberties and freedoms deserve better.”

“This isn’t just some temporary convenience here on Earth, but we’re people that are designed to live together as male and female and we’re going to have families. And that, there’s a great line in the Bible that children are an inheritance of the Lord and happy is he who has or hath his quiver full of them.”

“It’s hard for me to hide the fact that I am no fan of this administration, as much for their foreign policy as for their stance on GLBT issues. However, I am no fan of the Democratic candidates who take four days before they decide that Gen. Pace’s comments [that ‘homosexual acts ... are immoral’] were not very nice.”

“We could sit here with any number of policemen and doctors and they would all tell you if everybody who had a dependence on alcohol changed their mind and had a dependence on weed, the world would be a much easier place to live in. Nobody ever came home stoned and beat up their wife.”