Mary Cheney Quotes

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• For the record, I love my sister. But she is dead wrong on the marriage issue.
• I'd rather not be known as the Vice President's lesbian daughter.
• Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.
• After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.
• Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.
• Early numbers are always wrong.
• Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids.
• I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.
• I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay.
• I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado.
• I would also hope that no one would think about trying to amend the constitution as a political strategy,
• It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.
• I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but…
• It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.
• Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention.
• In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.
• The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.
• Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.
• 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 that…
• There are millions of gay people in the United States, including well-known celebrities.

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