Evan Bayh: “I want you to, if you can, please relay our appreciation for the service they're rendering our country.”

If they become significantly affected by this, does that present a systemic risk of some kind?

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.

It has been a privilege for me to work with you.

I believe is discriminatory. Times have changed since then and it seems to me we should respond to those changes, changes in the attitude of our people, the acceptance of gay and lesbian people in the workplace.