Donald Trump got elected because, in his twisted way, he pointed out the huge troubles in our economy and our democracy.

Experiences with friends or family members coming out have helped millions of Americans to see past stereotypes and better understand what being gay is - and is not.

The decision to serve needs to be independent of your politics.

The most moving responses I got to my coming out in the first place was people, like teenagers, letting me know that it made their lives easier in some way.

People in communities like Granger, Indiana, are rarely heard from on cable networks. But they, too, believe it is wrong to deport friends and neighbors who do no harm and much good.

If somebody is saying that I should not compete because I'm a man, I don't know what to say to that. And if somebody is saying that I had it easy, I would invite them to join the military and enter Indiana politics in 2010 as a gay person. See how easy they find it.

Mayors love lists when they say something good about their city and hate them when they don't.

I think people in our party tie themselves up in pretzels trying to be more electable.

We've never been a party to obstruct for obstruction sake.

I think a lot about intergenerational justice. Short-term versus long-term helps to explain a lot of the policy disagreements that happen between the parties, and I would argue that in most ways, we are the party with more long-term thinking.

Most people have trouble pronouncing my name, so they just call me 'Mayor Pete.'

I kept up top grades, and by senior year, a flow of mailed college recruiting brochures accumulated into an avalanche on our dining room table.

You're not free if you can't start a small business because you fear losing your health care, and you're certainly not free if a male boss or politician prevents you from making decisions about your own reproductive health.

If somebody is pointing out that there are advantages - many of them unfair - that go along with being male in our society and in our politics, then I completely agree.

That really important freedom in my life, the freedom to marry, came about because of choices that were made by policymakers who had power over me and millions of others.

Let's be under no illusions: There are attacks on, for example, transgender Americans from the Oval Office, picking on troops - people willing to lay down their lives for this country - not to mention teenagers in our high schools. So we've got to end the war on trans Americans.

It's not enough to play the old songs; that feels like being your own covers band or something. It's a big release to do new stuff.

You can tell a lot about a person by their handwriting.

I think Julian Casablancas and Amy Winehouse are two contemporaries I envy.

I'm always up for a riot, but now and again, you've gotta put your feet up and enjoy the sunset.

Noel Gallagher is a poet, and Liam is a town crier.

If Oasis is the sound of a council estate singing its heart out, then the Libertines sounded like someone just putting something in the rubbish chute at the back of the estate, trying to work out what day it is.

I remember when I was about 15 and still listened to Pet Shop Boys and Chas And Dave, some lad at school lent me a Blur tape, and it had on it a song called 'Bank Holiday.' I said, 'What's this? I liked that tape, but that one song is a bit fast'. He said, 'Yeah, it's punk. It depends what mood you're in.' And then something sort of clicked in me.

I don't know; we'll see what happens with Brexit. If they make it so that you can't travel any more without a visa, I'm going to have to leave the country, stay in the E.U., and probably change my citizenship.

My brother and I are not rivals. We are shipmates and best friends and the greatest songwriting partnership in the world.

I made the fatal mistake of trying to cut my own hair. It makes me look like I have a good face for radio.

When I was 16, walking down Oxford Street, I saw Ian Brown. I said, 'Are you Ian Brown?' He said no and walked off, but I am sure it was him.

The Libertines is a lifelong trip with very dear friends that, for one reason or another, will never end.

It's difficult talking about someone you love when you've split up with them, because it's painful to rake up all those old emotions again.

The fact that I'm obviously well enough to be playing - in fine fettle and fine singing voice, yet I am not playing with The Libertines - is a sore point.

If you don't wash your hair, it cleans itself. That applies to the human body as well.

I've been thinking about my life, my loss of friends, relationships, opportunities, money, my values. There's also the loss of relationship with my son and my daughter, who I've only met once. All that loss - I just got so good at blocking it out.

I reached the point where I was getting arrested all the time in London. I couldn't walk down the street. London becomes a very small village, eventually. You run out of places. It was inescapable.

I'd say exercising self-control is very important for a dissolute life.

This bloke in Rome once took his camera off and cracked me round the head with it, and I'm bleeding. He was a bit bigger than me, the Italian photographer, but I thought, 'I can't back down now,' so I sort of squared up to him. Luckily, my mate jumped round and bit him on the neck.

It's funny, but I always feel really safe on the streets of London. It's the most inspiring place to be in the world.

'Gunga Gin' is a true Libertines amalgamation, in the proper, old-fashioned sense of the word.

The rush that you get from having a good night's sleep is so exotic: to feel powerful and clean, capable and potent, as opposed to washed up, impotent and mute.

I'm a dreamer. That often helps me, no matter how crappy things become.

I quite like 50 Cent.

Being skint, drunk, paranoid - no, I don't wish that for myself.

In the early days of the Libertines, we used to put on Arcadian cabaret nights. There'd be some girl climbing out of an egg; we'd try and get a couple of mates to tell a few jokes, performance poets, and then we'd play in the middle of it all. More people were on stage than in the crowd.

My older sister, Amy Jo, and I - we are the first generation of my family to stay on at school and do any exams at all.

Drugs are a very selfish thing.

To meet my little girl for the first time was a humbling experience. She's got my eyes and a smile that just melts my heart.

I never went to school in England until I was 12.

I hate to say it - it breaks my heart - but we're a tacky, money-obsessed culture.

My sound is just vintage Vox AC30s and Marshalls... Matchless amps are cool as well.

I feel a lot better when I've got a bit of cash on me.

Babyshambles were offered some money to have a comeback. Good band, they were - amazing tunes.