I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I think the Equal Protection Clause does guarantee same-sex marriage in all fifty states. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Undecided," while running for re-election to state Senate in 1998, in response to an Outlines questionnaire asking, "Do you favor legalizing same-sex marriage? — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The changes in thinking about same-sex marriage have come slowly at first and then in rapid course. If such change is possible… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I've just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I have been to this point unwilling to sign on to same-sex marriage primarily because of my understandings of the traditional definitions… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It's time to recognize that under the equal protection clause of the United States [Constitution], same-sex couples should have the same rights… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I could never be a politician. But as uncomfortable as I would be doing so, I have no problem with Obama's long-planned… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The government has to treat all citizens equally. I am a strong supporter not of a weak version of civil unions, but… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I've called on Congress to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act to help end discrimination to help end discrimination against same-sex… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I've said repeatedly that where we see terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda or ISIL, they have perverted and distorted and tried to claim… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
From Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope:" "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If we are truly created equal than truly the love we commit to one another must be equal as well, this ruling… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Who cares if it's a campaign strategy, and who are other people to say it's ridiculous? I'm not gay, but I strongly… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What we've said to the girls is: 'If you guys ever decide that you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we get the black to see through the eyes of the white? Or the citizen to see through the eyes of the immigrant? Or the straight to see through the eyes of the gay? That has always… — Barack Obama Copy Share
I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image