Top 23 Mary Cheney Quotes
#1. It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.
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#2. I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado.
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#3. Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.
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#4. I'd rather not be known as the Vice President's lesbian daughter.
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#5. I would also hope that no one would think about trying to amend the constitution as a political strategy,
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#6. I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.
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#7. Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.
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#8. John Kerry didn't out me, nor did he offend or attack me by calling me a lesbian. I certainly couldn't be offended by the truth.
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#9. Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention.
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#10. I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay.
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#11. After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.
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#12. In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.
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#13. I had to admit I'd pretty much failed at the whole low-profile thing.
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#14. The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.
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#15. I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
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#17. It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.
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#18. It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.
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#19. Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids.
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#20. There are millions of gay people in the United States, including well-known celebrities.
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#21. Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.
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#22. I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.
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#23. For the record, I love my sister. But she is dead wrong on the marriage issue.
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