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I Recommend Sports, I Don't Recommend Gambling.

I Have A File Of Letters And Bits Of Ephemera From Friends Who Have Died. I Have Had Lots Of Friends Who Died Of Aids.

[dan Fried] Is The Department`s Foremost Russia Expert And He, Too, Is Now Leaving At A Time When Arguably The State Department Needs It Most, The State Department Will Not Have The Benefit Of His Insight Going Forward.

What's Insulting To The American People, The Senate, To This Whole Process Is That The Republicans, With All Other Nominees, Have Said Democrats Are Being Obstructionist For Wanting To See Documents, For Wanting To See A Paper Trail, For Wanting To Get Questions Answered In The Judiciary Committee Hearings, And Now All Of A Sudden, The Republicans Want Those Things For This.

My Idea Of What Was Going On In Politics Was Driven By Activism. I Came Out When I Was 17, And Right Away I Started Working In The Aids Activist Movement. For Me, Politics Was About Getting Drugs Approved And Getting Prisoners Access To The Same Kind Of Drugs That You Could Get On The Outside. It Was About Getting Needle Exchanges Approved. That Was Politics. These Were Policy Problems That Were Killing People, And We Were Trying To Get Them Changed.