Donald Trump has done more for getting people to understand the importance of public policy that respond to public needs in an affirmative way than a….

I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal..

Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns..

The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. T….

I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but ….

I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed - for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I woul….

If Bob Barr (conservative republican congressman from Georgia) caught on fire and I was holding a bucket of water, it would be great act of disciplin….

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot..

[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government..

I can tell you about health care and also about the financial reform bill. The Barack Obama, the President personally and his administration official….

While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period ha….

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..

The people who started the American government, the founders of the Constitution, didn't like political parties but they were forced to start them. N….

We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value..

Trying to avert foreclosures, once you can't just force the banks to do it as a condition of getting aid, means that you have to put some public mone….

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incen….

I believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything?.

The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not ent….

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible..

A leader can`t move a country that`s not ready. You can`t make the waves, but when you see them coming, you can help direct them..

The rights of the people who have done terrible things are hard to defend. You have to keep pointing out, the question is the process to determine wh….