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" If I had had someone like me who had chosen to live their lives out and proud, there would be no need for the Tyler Clementis of the world. "

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" I think it would be great if everybody could be out. But it's such a personal choice. People have to do it at their own speed. I respect that. "

" We aren't as divided as we think we are. We're not just Republicans sitting in one corner, and Democrats sitting in the other corner. "

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" Some people are saying, 'Justin Bieber is racist.' Is he? I don't know. "

" I think the Casey Anthony trial caught a lot of news organizations off guard. "

" The truth is the truth is the truth. And as long as you tell the truth, you'll be okay in the end. "

" You go to Brooklyn, everybody's got a beard and plaid shirt. They may be able to tell each other apart, but they all look alike to me. "

" If you're going to be in the business of news and telling people the truth... you've got to be honest. You've got to have the same rules for yourself as you do for everyone else. "

" Many people who know me call me 'the hardest working man in the news business' because you're never, ever going to outwork me. "

" It's not ideological to ask someone to stick to the question presented. "

" I don't watch the media that much. "

" I was born gay, just as I was born black. "

" I don't know if I would have the same take on world matters and social issues if I were not gay. "

" I was hired by the 'Tom Joyner Morning Show' to do commentary that makes people think. I want my audience to feel like they are learning and not being pandered to. "

" The best way not to encounter America's health care system is not to have to encounter it. "

" There are features that African Americans have that are similar! There are features that white people have that are similar! Features that Hispanic people have that are similar! "

" In order to be transparent, you really have to be completely honest and open, so that's how I've lived my life, and that's where I am now. I am completely transparent. There's nothing that you can't ask me and nothing I won't talk about. "

" I am a big devourer of James Baldwin. "

" I'm a gay black guy. If I can't ask questions without caring what people think of me, who can? "

" I think young people don't really know that much about the Civil Rights Movement and about the history of African Americans in this country. It's not taught enough in school. "

" I abhor hypocrisy. "

" Most people would think if you're the prime news anchor, then you should sort of be this Edward R. Murrow, Clark Kent guy with the family and 2.5 kids - or the perky, cute yet smart Katie Couric. "

" Any atrocity that's committed against one person affects us all, and we are becoming more of one society, of a global society, so something that happens in the Middle East or something that happens in Africa, something that happens in Asia, affects all of us. "

" If I have my opinion about something, you have your opinion about something, we don't have to fight over it. And we can have a conversation. We can also disagree without being disagreeable, and we can just disagree, which is fine. It doesn't mean that I don't like you, or you don't like me. We just disagree. "

" Being gay doesn't take your brain away or exclude me from having the same attributes as anyone else. "

" I think secrets are something that you keep or are afraid to share because you think they're going to harm you in some way. So if you don't have any secrets, then there's no way anyone can harm you. "

" I've never been one to take glee in anyone's demise, and when I saw Jerry Sandusky walk out in handcuffs, I did kind of feel a bit sorry for him, even though the jury found him to do some horrific things; I was like, 'His life is over.' "