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" Al Gore's problem, in my view, is that he never liked politics. He's actually deeply uncomfortable in it but felt he had to do it because of his father. He's much more comfortable in a private sector role and has, in fact, been much more successful in a private sector role, and I admire him for that. "
View
Problem
Politics
" Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold. "
Never
Live
Hold
" Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect. "
Gay
Life
Internal
" Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is. "
Just
Weather
Homosexuality
" How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion? "
Become
Political
Religion
" I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else to express itself. "
Through
Argument
Create
" I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago. "
Yesterday
Alone
I Can
" I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities. "
Who
Me
Being
" If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers. "
Law
Family
Gay
" In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual. "
Attachment
Right
Live
" I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things. "
Purge
Things
Shedding
" I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something - there's something wrong with them. They're not really thinking. "
Writing
Thinking
Someone
" I've always been a pretty candid person. I'm not a very secretive person; I'm not a very discreet person. One of my best friends once described me as pathologically indiscreet. "
Candid
Been
Best
" My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started. "
Marriage
My Own
Early
" The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set. "
Conscience
Need
You
" The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans. "
New York
Meet
York
" The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics. "
Good
Politics
Me
" The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last. "
Gay
Successful
Romantic
" There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it. "
Hear
Humanity
President
" The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting. "
Obama
Relationship
Black
" Well, in the past, the size of government was one of the more fundamental dividing lines between Right and Left. The Right was supposed to represent the small government philosophy - limited spending, low taxes. Obviously, things have shifted. "
Small
Philosophy
Past
" We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up. "
Numbers
Travel
Down
" What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship. "
Desire
Friendship
Gay
" When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary. "
Marriage
Me
Community
" When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, 'Then there's no hope for me, Mum.' "
God
Hope
Me
" When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses. "
Popular
Minority
You
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