Joe Solmonese quote: "The Human Rights Campaign has been proud to be part of the enormous progress made on the road to equality over the last 25 years, ... While we have miles to go, the national dinner gave us an opportunity to look at the distance we've crossed."

The more we hear about John Roberts' record, the more disturbed we become. That he counseled Preside...
JOE SOLMONESE

Faith-based organizations have been partnering successfully with the government for years without th...
JOE SOLMONESE

She was a huge ally. She lent her name to the cause, testified before Congress on ENDA (Employment N...
JOE SOLMONESE

When others have shied away, our awardees have shown great commitment in their advocacy for equal ri...
JOE SOLMONESE

The real debate around this witch hunt isnt between us and the Vatican, its between the Vatican and ...
JOE SOLMONESE

[Joe Solmonese, president of Human Rights Campaign, a national gay-rights advocacy group, said the e...
JOE SOLMONESE

What the Church is doing, to the outside observer who reads this, is immediately equating gay men wi...
JOE SOLMONESE

You have this massive problem within the Catholic Church and the Church's response to it, in one swe...
JOE SOLMONESE

The real debate around this witch hunt isn't between us and the Vatican, it's between the Vatican an...
JOE SOLMONESE

Hate crimes send a message of fear, and Congress answered with a powerful law enforcement tool, ... ...
JOE SOLMONESE

Judge Roberts as chief justice threatens decades of a federal court system tipped against equality.
JOE SOLMONESE

You spoke with passion for the civil rights
of all Americans regardless of if theyre gay o...
JOE SOLMONESE

As we review more and more documents, I think we're finding more evidence that Roberts would vote wi...
JOE SOLMONESE

Compromise is only comfortable to the man who is outside the presence of God.
JOE JOE DAWSON

Almost All Christians want to taste the fruits of revival but only a few will do what's necessary to...
JOE JOE DAWSON

I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace ...
JOE BIDEN

I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a re...
JOE FRAZIER

When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.
JOE THEISMANN

If you need more than 10 rounds to hunt, and some argue they hunt with that many rounds, you shouldn...
JOE BIDEN

Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must ...
JOE LIEBERMAN

Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understand...
JOE TORRE

You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shou...
JOE SLOVO

So you don't speak English, you have no ID, you can't tell where you're from... that'...
JOE ARPAIO

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.
JOE PATERNO

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true profes...
JOE PATERNO

I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's righ...
JOE WURZELBACHER

Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through...
JOE CRAFT

If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my family and friends as second, and then I keep my occupa...
JOE GIBBS

Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology.
JOE SLOVO

After my first knee operation, in January of '65 before I went to the Jets, Dr. James Nicholas t...
JOE NAMATH

I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior.
JOE WILSON

Chances are if I am the one to cosign people, they will become a big part of the industry.
FAT JOE

I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I'll tell you I never got my just due and my respect ...
FAT JOE

I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a h...
FAT JOE

Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get h...
FAT JOE

If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era...
FAT JOE

I started out in the Apollo Theater. That's where I got my start. I won Amateur Night four weeks...
FAT JOE

Never get involved with a business that you can't really be hands-on - that if your employees qu...
FAT JOE

Man I got so many regrets. The biggest is that Eminem gave me so many demos - six different times he...
FAT JOE

All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot...
FAT JOE

Talking to people from the heart matters, and it's unfortunately something brands have forgotten...
FAT JOE

Once you achieve a level of success... you learn, something tells you, 'Man this ain't even ...
FAT JOE

Fat Joe ain't out here trying to battle-rap everybody in the world. That's not what I'm ...
FAT JOE

When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over ev...
FAT JOE

Before I was rapping, I was always around the rap game, even though I was in the streets. I would be...
FAT JOE

To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of...
FAT JOE

Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
FAT JOE

When I came up in hip hop, there was no such thing as a Puerto Rican rapper doing hip hop for many m...
FAT JOE

Pun was just a natural-born genius with music, and he basically taught me so many tricks on how to m...
FAT JOE

As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx,...
FAT JOE

I have been Fat Joe since I was a kid. It's always been my name and always will be.
FAT JOE

I was a diabetic for 16 years, since I was 14. Being that I lost weight, no more diabetes. You don&#...
FAT JOE

See, me, I don't run away. During my successes or my failures, I put it on me.
FAT JOE

We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we brin...
FAT JOE

I'm known to be hands on 100%. I don't know any other way to be than a leader by example.
FAT JOE

Envision what the end result is supposed to be... what do you want to be when you grow up? Where do ...
FAT JOE

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put...
JOE BIDEN

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.
JOE ROGAN

Any comic like myself owes everything he has to Lenny Bruce. He was the originator. The godfather of...
JOE ROGAN

When your dad comes back from a faraway land with bows and arrows and spears wrapped up in a carpet....
JOE ALWYN

As a quarterback, there's no better way to finish your year, in winning a Super Bowl, than with ...
JOE MONTANA

I don't bow down to the federal government.
JOE ARPAIO

When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from...
JOE SLOVO

The sunrise was the colour of bad blood. It leaked out of the east and stained the dark sky red, mar...
JOE ABERCROMBIE

I'm kind of like Britney Spears having a headache. Everybody wants to know about it.
JOE WURZELBACHER

The first CD that I ever bought was 'Britney Spears.' It was at a 7-Eleven and I was like, &...
JOE JONAS

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Oly...
JOE BIDEN

Every time I pull somebody out of the bullpen, I believe he can do the job. I have to believe it. If...
JOE TORRE

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned ...
JOE WRIGHT

I'd much rather hang out in a cafe. That's where things are really happening.
JOE SACCO

I love that Cadillac ATS!
JOE BIDEN

I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calen...
JOE SHUSTER

Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda...
JOE CONASON

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and ...
JOE BIDEN

I'll tell ya this: I come from an educated family. My father was an attorney representing blue c...
JOE PISCOPO

Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicos...
JOE KLEIN

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
JOE PATERNO

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but do...
JOE ABERCROMBIE

When they get a 50-inch waist and a gorilla butt, it's ugly looking - and I think bodybuilding h...
JOE GOLD

Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders.
JOE GOLD

Carbs - especially pasta - are the fuel my body needs to maintain an athletic lifestyle.
JOE BASTIANICH

I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable ...
JOE SCARBOROUGH

Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.
JOE KARBO

The only place I considered home was the boarding school in Yorkshire my parents sent me to. It'...
JOE STRUMMER

Before borrowing money from a friend it's best to decide which you need most.
JOE MOORE

When you're in hell, only a devil can point the way out.
JOE ABERCROMBIE

I want each and every West Virginian to have bragging rights. I want to stop playing defense and sta...
JOE MANCHIN

I couldn't get any jobs, and when that happens, you get so humble it's disgusting. I didn't feel lik...
JOE PESCI

I feel very fortunate to have broken in with the Milwaukee Braves organization.
JOE TORRE

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
JOE PATERNO

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.
JOE MURRAY

Having a blank slate is sometimes as daunting as it is exciting.
JOE MADUREIRA

My family's support and the negative environment of the day toward blacks in South Carolina beca...
JOE FRAZIER

Selling wine is all about sizing people up, and it takes a certain amount of chutzpah. The tableside...
JOE BASTIANICH

You have to make it happen.
JOE GREENE

Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstei...
JOE THEISMAN

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop mak...
JOE ABERCROMBIE

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
JOE KLAAS

Of course you know, this means war.
JOE ADAMSON

...Maude Harris told me that all was well with the world because medical science had profited by the...
JOE GOULD

If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organ...
JOE ROGAN

One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great th...
JOE ABERCROMBIE

It takes time to save time.
JOE TAYLOR

Thorough preparation makes its own luck.
JOE POYER

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.
JOE NAMATH

I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
JOE WALSH

Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy.
JOE MCCARTHY

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
JOE PATERNO

Dream the impossible dream, Fight the unbeatable foe, Strive with your last ounce of courage, to rea...
JOE DARION

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it...
JOE DIMAGGIO

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellency becomes a reality...
JOE PATERNO

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit...
JOE PATERNO

Confidence is a very fragile thing.
JOE MONTANA

You must sacrifice, train, do everything possible to put yourself in a position to win. But if you c...
JOE FALCON

There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust -- good Christians and good Communists.
JOE SLOVO

When you win nothing hurts.
JOE NAMATH

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
JOE PATERNO

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
JOE PATERNO

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
JOE THEISMANN

When you win, nothing hurts.
JOE NAMATH

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who d...
JOE NAMATH

We're going to win Sunday. I guarantee it.
JOE NAMATH

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.
JOE GARAGIOLA

I honestly believed I would make it. I had the desire. A lot of people have the ability, but they do...
JOE CARTER

The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.
JOE ORTON

Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.
JOE DAVIS

You learn you can do your best even when it's hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a littl...
JOE NAMATH

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true profession...
JOE PATERNO

I have a fear of failure.
JOE MONTANA

Our value is the sum of our values.
JOE BATTEN

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
JOE CLARK

People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.
JOE GIBBS

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.
JOE BATTEN

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competit...
JOE BAMFORD

Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.
JOE LOUIS

A ball player has got to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That is why no boy from a rich fami...
JOE DIMAGGIO

In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.
JOE MONTANA

A committee of one gets things done.
JOE RYAN

I don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it
JOE SIMMONS

The only things I regret... are the things I didn't do.
JOE KARBO

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
JOE ANCIS

Dream the impossible dream.
JOE DARION

It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.
JOE CHUNG

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to
JOE GORES

My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog...
JOE WEINSTEIN

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.
JOE GORES

If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integr...
JOE BIDEN

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked ...
JOE BIDEN

The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wa...
JOE MARTIN

That was the age of great men, doing what was right.
JOE ABERCROMBIE

Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.
JOE THEISMANN

I know firsthand how agonizing waiting can be.
JOE MANCHIN

When all is said and done and the e-book is written about politics and the Internet, it is not going...
JOE GREEN

We have reached an important milestone and achieved a new momentum in reaching a goal all Americans ...
JOE LIEBERMAN

Ali even told me in the ring, 'You can't beat me - I'm your Lord.' I just told him, ...
JOE FRAZIER

I went to see President Nixon at the White House. It wasn't difficult to get a meeting because I...
JOE FRAZIER

Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships t...
JOE TORRE

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.
JOE KLEIN

As a supporter of the Prostate Cancer Foundation and their Home Run Challenge program, I am extremel...
JOE TORRE

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent...
JOE MANCHIN

The Dalai Lama's entire being is about peace and harmony, forgiveness and self-discipline. Those...
JOE NICHOLS

We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and...
JOE BACA

My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner...
JOE PERRY

No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still ...
JOE ROGAN

People should not be in a position where their children have access to weapons and ammunition.
JOE BIDEN

Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his...
JOE BIDEN

I love the ambiguous kind of endings. I think, oftentimes, that's what life really is - there...
JOE CARNAHAN

'Skins' had been a brilliant breeding ground for young actors, young directors and young wri...
JOE DEMPSIE

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing thing...
JOE NAMATH

Today I am announcing my support for Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States of Amer...
JOE ANDREW

I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and ...
JOE FRAZIER

The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the H...
JOE BARTON

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our...
JOE BIDEN

Working in a restaurant means being part of a family, albeit usually a slightly dysfunctional one. N...
JOE BASTIANICH

I think it says wonders about people that can write an entire album, and put out an entire album of ...
JOE NICHOLS

Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs...
JOE BARTON

Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and...
JOE KLEIN

Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direct...
JOE BIDEN

I grew up watching Letterman, 'Seinfeld,' 'SNL,' and Monty Python movies. But nothin...
JOE MANDE

After I hurt the knee, football wasn't nearly as much fun. I was limited. But you make do with w...
JOE NAMATH

The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchangin...
JOE LIEBERMAN

There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass...
JOE WRIGHT

Maybe you could put it out there that I don't have a built-in dislike of ballads. That was kind ...
JOE PERRY

The feeling of being accepted and acknowledgement and recognition and fame - I'm vain like every...
JOE JAMAIL

Our workers comp debt is the Achilles heel of our state's economy, and I firmly believe that in ...
JOE MANCHIN

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.
JOE BIDEN

When we go to court, they are going to have to come up with all the evidence where they are accusing...
JOE ARPAIO

One of the things I've never been accused of is not caring about people.
JOE BIDEN

Don't hold against me that I don't own - that I don't own a single stock or bond. Don...
JOE BIDEN

The issue in Web accessibility is the fact that blind and visually-impaired people need the single b...
JOE CLARK

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special ed...
JOE BACA

The planet's spinning a thousand miles an hour around this gigantic nuclear explosion while thes...
JOE ROGAN

I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'
JOE GARAGIOLA

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to...
JOE DIMAGGIO

Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.
JOE BARTON

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, ...
JOE BIDEN

I only wear two rings: a wedding ring and my World Series ring.
JOE GARAGIOLA

I'm not a good tourist, I don't like tourism.
JOE SACCO

As a longtime practitioner of yoga and a person who's been involved in physical fitness my whole...
JOE ROGAN

The menu should be part of the entertainment, part of the dining experience. It's kind of like r...
JOE BASTIANICH

The Human Rights Campaign has been proud to be part of the enormous progress made on the road to equality over the last 25 years, ... While we have miles to go, the national dinner gave us an opportunity to look at the distance we've crossed.

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The Human Rights Campaign has been proud to be part of the enormous progress made on the road to equality over the last 25 years, ... While we have miles to go, the national dinner gave us an opportunity to look at the distance we've crossed.

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