Defense Of Marriage Act Quotes

#1. The principal House sponsor (of the Defense of Marriage Act), Bob Barr of Georgia has been married three times
which raises the question of why the act doesn't contain a three-strikes-and-you're-out provision.

Frank Rich

#2. I can't marry my way into citizenship like straight people can. I can get married in the state of New York where I live, but because of the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government, which hands out visas, won't recognize my marriage.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#3. I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

Barack Obama

#4. The Clintons opposed gay marriage. They did don't ask, don't tell. They did the Defense of Marriage Act.

Bill O'Reilly

#5. We are wide open and vulnerable and in all likelihood an activist judge will strike down our Defense of Marriage Act, our state law against gay marriage, this year. And in all likelihood, we will have gay marriage in 2004 in Minnesota , if we don't get this amendment on the ballot for November.

Michele Bachmann

#6. I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act.

Herman Cain

#7. I was one of 14 senators to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act. I thought it was a harsh and unnecessary thing to do to people across this country who care enough about each other to want to be married.

Russ Feingold

#8. I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.

Ben Nighthorse Campbell

#9. Something terrible happened in Salem in 1692 . . . but it isn't what you think!

Suzy Witten

#10. When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.

Salman Rushdie

#11. It's your Dom's job to look after you, protect you, to give you a safe place to express your desire to serve him.

Jaime Samms

#12. I may add here that one of the secrets of my happy life is that i have never made the mistake of learning to drive a car. I have never lacked people, usually women, longing to drive me withersoever I wanted. Why keep bitches and bark yourself?

Iris Murdoch

#13. Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. I opened my veins. Unstoppably life spurts out with no remedy. Now I set out bowls and plates. Every bowl will be shallow. Every plate will be small. And overflowing their rims, into the black earth, to nourish the rushes unstoppably without cure, gushes poetry ...

Marina Tsvetaeva

#15. Worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing).

Mike Schmoker

#16. But the second half of the message has been sorely neglected: the part about God's dream that you become a precious and cherished son or daughter living in deep union with Him.

Chip Ingram

#17. I liked the girly cartoons. I was very much a girly-girl.

Kirsten Dunst

#18. The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

Salvador Dali

#19. The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.

Ted Cruz

#20. I had always hoped that the younger generation receiving their early impressions after the flame of liberty had been kindled in every breast ... would have sympathized with oppression wherever found, and proved their love of liberty beyond their own share of it.

Thomas Jefferson

#21. When you go out on a limb, that's when you really know you're living.

Robin Quivers

#22. You know, I don't think I've ever met anyone quite like you. You're like some old-fashioned knight." "Thank you, though it's been a while since I killed a dragon.

K.J. Wignall