What matters is a willingness and an ability to perform the mission, not an individual's sexual orientation.
I hope we can move quickly and deliberately to maximize the opportunity for all Americans to serve their country.
Mr. Almy and Ms. Kopfstein were discharged solely on the basis of who they are.
We probably have lost 13,000 or more Americans who are willing to serve, and that, to me, is a real loss of military eff...
To me, that's vitally important in this kind of a pluralistic and diverse democracy that we have.
If we can't get this repealed--and I hope we can--at a minimum, I hope we can suspend the discharges under these circums...
the British military is a great military, and great allies of ours, notwithstanding their policy on homosexuals serving ...
It's not a question of 'whether,' but a question of 'how' we are going to implement a repeal.
I also believe it's unconscionable, when the Commander in Chief and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs have both said we s...
look, our closest military allies in the world, the Brits, have a policy by which homosexuals serve openly, and they hav...
When you know somebody personally, you're much less likely to fear them, and I think that most discrimination is based o...
I'm in favor of repeal, and there's no doubt about that.
That strikes me as unconscionable and unfair, and I hope we can repeal this policy promptly.
When you have a policy of discrimination in the United States, the burden has to be on those who are defending it.
Our goal shouldn't be to punish shortcomings but to encourage success.
We need to disabuse ourselves of the notion that a test score constitutes an education.
No education policy--not No Child Left Behind and not any of the proposed reforms--will work without adequate funding.
We need to reform ESEA this year, and the administration's proposal serves as a useful first step.
