[Approving gay marriage is the correct and moral thing to do, even if the country isn't ready for it. Just as it took major movements to oppose sexism and racism, we are in the now midst of] the first throes ... a long hard slog.

No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.

I do not support gay marriage, but I hope the Massachusetts state legislature will act in a manner that is consistent with today's Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling.

I believe that we were not as effective in the second term dealing with this issue of nuclear none proliferation as we had been during the first term when we stripped Libya and Iraq and A.Q. Khan and their capacity to proliferate nuclear technology.

I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay, and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish.

I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce.