Administration Quote by Jay Leno

Most Americans don't care about gay marriage. But it matters very much to the knuckle-draggers and Christianists and whack jobs in Bush's ever smaller…

— Dan Savage

Gay marriage has jumped out of the closet on to the front page. Everyone from the president of the U.S. to retired four-star general…

— Kitty Kelley

And now gay people want to get married... Haven't they suffered enough?

— George Carlin

George Bush says that gay people getting married would violate the sanctity of marriage. Is anybody here married? Does it feel like a gift…

— Greg Giraldo

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

— Lady Gaga

History moves fast. It's hard to believe that gay Americans achieved full constitutional personhood just five years after corporations did!

— Stephen Colbert

Bush proposed a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Some saw the move as an attempt to preserve traditional values, while others saw it…

— Jon Stewart

I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

— Mary Cheney

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

— Mary Cheney

Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see failed marriages. But it is not under attack by…

— Earl Blumenauer

Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education.

— David O. Russell

Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining…

— Gus Van Sant