Mary Cheney Quotes

For the record, I love my sister. But she is dead wrong on the marriage issue.

I would also hope that no one would think about trying to amend the constitution as a political strategy,

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.

I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

I had to admit I'd pretty much failed at the whole low-profile thing.

The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.

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.

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.

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.

It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.

Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.

I'd rather not be known as the Vice President's lesbian daughter.

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.

Every piece of remotely responsible research that has been done in the last 20 years on this issue has shown there is no difference between children who are raised by same-sex parents and children who are raised by opposite-sex parents. What matters is that children are being raised in a stable, loving environment.

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

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.

I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay.