Evan Bayh: “Our force's current operational tempo and associated readiness levels present a continuing challenge for the Department.”

There's something fundamentally wrong about that. If we can pursue our Nation's security without putting them or us as a country institutionalizing hypocrisy, I think America is stronger, we are a more just and secure country.

In all likelihood there were gay Americans serving at Valley Forge, there were gay Americans at Gettysburg, there were gay Americans on Normandy Beach, there are gay Americans serving in Iraq and Afghanistan today.

We are paying a macroeconomic price for the delay in resolving this issue.

The closer you got to the center of the city where Susan was, the worse and worse things got.