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

Our national security has not been harmed by the integration of the Armed Forces.

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.

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