"I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority."

"These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exagge…"

"Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can't do anything b…"

"The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of o…"

"… [they] believe that life begins at conception and ends at birth…"

"In the debate between those who believe in essentially unregulated markets and others who hold that reasonable regula…"

"I do have things I would like to see adopted on behalf of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people: they include…"

"In a free society a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what…"

"Here's the story: There's a terrible crisis affecting the American economy. We have come together on a bill to allevi…"

"There are a lot of ways to mispronounce my name. That is the least common […] I checked with my mother. In 50 years n…"