3 December 2020 Ernest Istook Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.
3 December 2020 Patrick White My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
3 December 2020 Bill Shuster President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage.
3 December 2020 Mark Udall When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner ’til death do you part.’
3 December 2020 Gary Numan I am very old-fashioned about marriage. It is for life and I mean it. I always knew that when I met the right girl, the life I had before – being single, in a band, girls everywhere – would be over.
3 December 2020 Richard Pryor Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings… and lawyers.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
3 December 2020 Barack Obama 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 It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor.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.
3 December 2020 Kenneth G. Wilson My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.
3 December 2020 Francoise Sagan Marriage? It’s like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.
3 December 2020 J. C. Watts In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That’s a good thing.
3 December 2020 Mary Wesley People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.
3 December 2020 Paul Martin I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.
3 December 2020 Jennifer Garner I don’t have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does – and I’m much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.
3 December 2020 Linda McCartney But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby The heart of marriage is memories and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
3 December 2020 Jack Kingston Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.
3 December 2020 Julia Child The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.
3 December 2020 Colin Powell In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hampton To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
3 December 2020 Jesse Tyler Ferguson The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It’s right there in black and white and it’s been the same since the start of Wikipedia.
3 December 2020 David Boreanaz I haven’t been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.
3 December 2020 Nick Lampson Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like President Bush, I strongly believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
3 December 2020 Denis Diderot The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
3 December 2020 Alain de Botton What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
3 December 2020 John Updike The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
3 December 2020 Utada Hikaru I figure no matter how old you are, it’s always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
