Clearly if it is sensible to hold a referendum on independence it is crucial that we have one on marriage. It is the only way the country can move forward on this issue. Let all those who have a view on this subject place their trust in the Scottish people and let Scotland decide.

I was one of 14 senators to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act. I thought it was a harsh and unnecessary thing to do to people across this country who care enough about each other to want to be married.

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman I'm called a bigot.

My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is but I happen to be imperfect. However that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.

Cross-cultural marriage is difficult especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion gay marriage stem cell research all of those things you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Spending only what the country can afford rewarding savings encouraging independence supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.

Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well so is money and what's more life-affirming than cold hard cash?

I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long where it really is nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

I love America more than any other country in this world and exactly for this reason I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything even if I don't have anything. It's hard. I love her too much. That's what counts.

If we love our country we should also love our countrymen.

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is or very soon will be void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

It's not the men in my life that count it's the life in my men.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

In the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life.

To live a pure unselfish life one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.