Amendments Quote by Michele Bachmann

We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can't have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment is the…

— Ernest Istook

Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is…

— John Sununu

My tact is that you don't change the definition of marriage for one group, homosexuals, because you have to change it for all the…

— Bill O'Reilly

Like the majority of Alaskans, I supported a constitutional amendment in 1998 defining marriage as only between a man and a woman, but my…

— Lisa Murkowski

So now we're after a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a guy-and-gal thing. To the founders, this would have been like an amendment…

— James Lileks

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

— Corrine Brown

Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way,…

— Jeff Sessions

Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue.…

— Jesse Tyler Ferguson

If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or…

— Gary Bauer

I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years.

— Gary Bauer

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

— Tony Campolo

It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to…

— Busy Philipps