Staffers Quotes by Mary Cheney

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

— Mary Cheney

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

— Mary Cheney

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…

— Mary Cheney

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

— Mary Cheney

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

— Mary Cheney

I didnt know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

— Mary Cheney

I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to…

— Mary Cheney

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

— Mary Cheney

Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.

— Mary Cheney

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

— Mary Cheney

Early numbers are always wrong.

— Mary Cheney

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…

— Mary Cheney

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

— Mary Cheney

In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.

— Mary Cheney

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

— Mary Cheney