There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married – who divorce in three seconds – don’t want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

We are all alike, on the inside.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

The little man is still a man.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

When I do a picture and it’s 90% black, like ‚Bird,‘ I use 90% black people.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally – and I still feel that way.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.

Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

My wife and I love each other very much.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

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.

Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

A right delayed is a right denied.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

It’s a facet of the gay rights movement that people don’t think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn’t until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana’s ‚head and master rule,‘ that the husband was head and master of the house.

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!

I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.