"Rush Limbaugh, one of your big critics. Boy, Rush Limbaugh said he hopes this administration fails. So you're saying, 'I hope America fails.' ... He just wants the country to fail. To me, that's treason. He's not saying anything differently than what Osama bin Laden is saying." — Openly lesbian comedian Wanda Sykes ( pictured ) to President Obama at the White House Correspondents' Association Annual Dinner, May 9.
"I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker but he was just so strung out on OxyContin he missed his flight. ... Rush Limbaugh. 'I hope the country fails.' I hope his kidneys fail. How 'bout that? He needs a good waterboarding, that's what he needs." — Openly lesbian comedian Wanda Sykes to President Obama at the White House Correspondents' Association Annual Dinner, May 9.
" ( Fox News' ) Sean Hannity said he was going to get waterboarded for charity. ... He can't take a waterboarding. I could break Sean Hannity just by giving him a middle seat in coach." — Openly lesbian comedian Wanda Sykes at the White House Correspondents' Association Annual Dinner, May 9.
" ( Instead of an iPod ) you should have given the queen ( of England ) something, you know, like a memento of our country, something that says America. Give her Texas." — Openly lesbian comedian Wanda Sykes to President Obama at the White House Correspondents' Association Annual Dinner, May 9.
" ( Senior Adviser ) David ( Axelrod ) and I have been together for a long time. ... I think back to that day that I called Ax so many years ago and said, 'You and I can do wonderful things together,' and he said to me the same thing that partners all across America are saying to one another right now: 'Let's go to Iowa and make it official.'" — President Barack Obama at the White House Correspondents' Association Annual Dinner, May 9.
"At a state level, it's ( same-sex marriage ) up to them. I don't want it to be a federal thing. I personally still think it's wrong. People don't understand the dictionary—it's called queer. Queer means strange and unusual. It's not like a slur, like you would call a white person a honky or something like that. You know, God is pretty explicit in what we're supposed to do—what man and woman are for. Now, at the same time, we're supposed to love everybody and accept people, and preach against the sins. I've had some friends that are actually homosexual. And, I mean, they know where I stand, and they know that I wouldn't have them anywhere near my children. But at the same time, they're people, and they're going to do their thing." — Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher to Christianity Today, May 4.
" ( Nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage is ) a sure thing. Clearly, the momentum is on our side. It's just a matter of time." — Openly gay American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony Romero to The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 11.
"They ( my parents ) were angry and disappointed ( when I came out to them ) . I was the star son, the golden boy. For them, it was like they were meeting the first homosexual in their lives, and it was their son." — Openly gay American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony Romero to The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 11.
"We still do largely do what we want to do. We write music for pleasure, as much as anything else. I think Chris and I managed not to lose that childish sense of play, like, I don't know, making a sandcastle." — Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys to Idolator.com, April 4.
—Assistance: Bill Kelley
