When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.
Politicians in Washington and Madison aren’t hearing, aren’t listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy.
Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.
I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.
From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation.
I had a serious childhood illness – sort of like spinal meningitis – that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn’t be insured because of a pre-existing condition.
I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.
In my grandfather’s lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it’s now okay to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until it’s simply the way things are.