The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform and now this legislation will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.

I've never quite understood why people marry marriage is just an invented structure.

I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.

I rise today in support of Bill C-38 the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.

You know for many elected officials they all started in the same place. You know marriage is between a man and a woman but they understand that they are moving inevitably catching up to the American public.

I am hoping this is my year to have children. I understand that I am possibly more European in my views of marriage. I am not going to say I'm not going to get married but it's not my priority.

If someone talks about union fidelity a monogamous relationship love blessing I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing you see I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.

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.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven and if temporality is held to be invalidating then nothing real succeeds.

When undertaking marriage everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts and take counsel from himself.

I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it people.

In marriage a man becomes slack and selfish and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Love is union with somebody or something outside oneself under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

All everything that I understand I understand only because I love.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life but I have felt it.

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.

I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances making decisions and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.