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The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out.

— Barney Frank

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Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can't do anything because they're tied up in knots.

I’m surprised to find absence of explicit anti-Semitism this time. Was a page missing?

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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.

The opposite of pragmatism is not idealism. It’s wishful thinking.

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