Logo
Quote by Barack Obama
I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repeal

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 It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor.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

Other quotes by Barack Obama

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes. – Barack Obama

Category:
Family
Author
Barack Obama
Read Quote

We need somebody whos got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what its like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what its like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and thats the criterion by which Ill be selecting my judges. – Barack Obama

Category:
mom
Author
Barack Obama
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Marriage
category

Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating Gods law. – Jerry Falwell

Category:
Marriage

The surest way to be alone is to get married. – Gloria Steinem

Category:
Marriage

I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two. – Ava Gardner

Category:
Marriage

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

Category:
Marriage

Random Quotes

Friendships the wine of life: but friendship new… is neither strong nor pure. – Edward Young

Category:
Friendship

He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. – Arabic Proverb

Category:
Health

One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options. – Thomas Menino

Category:
Learning

I have never been given to envy – save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily. – Paul Getty

Category:
Marriage