Tammy Baldwin Quotes

In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being.

I am different than some people would like me to be. I just don't buy into that the personal can be political.

You just never know when today's cultural outcasts will become tomorrow's cultural icons.

With all the cable and Internet channels you have available, you have so much opportunity. If you want to say something, you can say it and have people see it.

I want to be able to wake up and feel like, 'Eh, I feel like wearing this!' Or talking to that person. It's so much more work to have to stay in that box to fit in, 'Mean Girls' style.

Writing is a form of activism.

I've never given a damn. A seven-foot man who dresses as a woman as a job is not interested in what other people think.

People have a right to express themselves.

I don't believe that expressing your opinion, regardless of who is there, is being rude. And it's a shame that we've reached a level in our country where we think that you don't have the right to put your opinion out there.

Remember, there are two things that keep us oppressed: them and us. We are half of the equation. There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it's now OK to express ourselves publicly. We must make that day ourselves, by speaking out publicly -- first in small numbers, then in greater numbers, until it's simply the way things are and no one thinks twice. Never doubt that we will create this world, because, my friends, we are fortunate to live in a democracy, and in a democracy, we decide what's possible.

I don't have any desire to rebel and be something totally different from what I am.

The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out.

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

I'm proud that I was one of the first ones out, singing loud and proud.

Gay brothers and sisters... You must come out. Come out to your relatives... come out to your friends... Come out to your neighbors... to your fellow workers... to the people who work where you eat and shop... break down the myths, destroy the lies and distortions. For your sake. For their sake. For the sake of the youngsters who are becoming scared.

Who, precisely, are your Dreamers? Are their Dreams in Technicolor? Do you allow their most Outrageous Dreams to be seen in public?

Build what you want to see in the world.

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

I want to continue to speak out on issues that matter to me. I want to have even more of a voice.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.

Political correctness has changed everything. People forget that political correctness used to be called spastic gay talk.

The fact that I can ever be open about my being gay is amazing! It's great that I don't have to hide it, but also it would be really nice if, in twenty years, it's not even a thing.

If a person is confident enough in the way they feel, whether it's an art form or whether it's just in life, it comes off---you don't have anything to prove; you can just be who you are.

One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be.

Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives