What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back you have to be a kind of team going through life.

For the life of me I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.

I love marriage. I failed at marriage but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.

I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it because that's not good for anybody.

Ultimately I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices right?

The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.

Even though marriage is doomed if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.

After 45 years of marriage when I have an argument with my wife if we don't agree we do what she wants. But when we agree we do what I want!

She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces but then as my mother always says you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.

I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.

I like being independent. I don't think that marriage means you're not independent but right now I'm very comfortable and I'm probably the happiest I've ever been. I feel solid. I feel safe.

Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage between man and woman male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature.

I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us.

No I think marriage is a great thing.

Marriage is like a formality for me.

The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.

I ran to my marriage I was happily ready to take on marriage.

Independence doesn't - doesn't equate to moderates. Millions of independents are pro-life. Millions of independents believe marriage is between a man and a woman.

If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be quote 'same sex ' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.

My argument is simple which is that for several thousand years in Western civilization marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.

Particularly black Americans many of them from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.

If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.

There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman a view shared by half the nation is portrayed as evidence of hatred.