If you are going to have to play defense all the time you cannot have the kind of ingenuity assertiveness independence and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.
If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer...
I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala...
For me living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest open relationship with my God my loved ones my constituency and myself.
