What I really hope for, ultimately, is that the closet will be a non-factor in American politics in a couple of decades.

The upside of being in the closet is that you develop skills of duplicity, which are great for big-time politicians.

What I don't understand is how a policy against outing trumps a policy of reporting. Whenever you're reporting on hypocrisy, you're kind of 'outing' something to begin with.

Take the chance! You can!

I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times.

Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can’t bother about where they’re going.

When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.

I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.

I learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger, too, that it's O.K. to be pluggish.

The one thing I have found about Hollywood is it's a town full of people who believe in themselves, often to a degree where they're what you would call "delusional."

General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.

There is no such thing as a normal psychology that holds for all people.

If somebody says, "I love you," to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? "I love you, too."