Mary Cheney famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Sex #President #Amendments
I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
-- Mary Cheney

#Thinking #Giving #People
It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.
-- Mary Cheney

#Boss #News #Owners
Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention.
-- Mary Cheney

#Keys #Heathers #Conventions
In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.
-- Mary Cheney

#Teenager #Gay #Pride
The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.
-- Mary Cheney

#Presidential #Vices #Vice President
Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.
-- Mary Cheney

#Lying #Would Be #Harder
It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.
-- Mary Cheney

#School #Gay #Years
There are millions of gay people in the United States, including well-known celebrities.
-- Mary Cheney

#Gay #People #United States
I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.
-- Mary Cheney

#Mom #Dad #Littles
It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.
-- Mary Cheney

#Sex #Years
I would also hope that no one would think about trying to amend the constitution as a political strategy,
-- Mary Cheney

#Thinking #Political #Trying
I'd rather not be known as the Vice President's lesbian daughter.
-- Mary Cheney

#Mother #Daughter #President
Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.
-- Mary Cheney

#Sleep #Campaigns #Ability
After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.
-- Mary Cheney

#Office #President #Vices
Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.
-- Mary Cheney

#Wyoming #Levels #Voters
Early numbers are always wrong.
-- Mary Cheney

#Numbers
Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids.
-- Mary Cheney

#Parent #Tabloids #Possibility
I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.
-- Mary Cheney

#School #Different #Made
I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay.
-- Mary Cheney

#Gay #Firsts #Not Sure
I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado.
-- Mary Cheney

#Jobs #Home #Office
For the record, I love my sister. But she is dead wrong on the marriage issue.
-- Mary Cheney

#Gay #Issues #Records

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