On the record
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IN-RFormer senators
If marriage is not about one man and one woman, for the purpose of a relationship of which to have children and continue the society, then what? If it's about two women or two men, why not two women and three men? Why not whatever…
We had a very forceful voice being heard from the American public.
The nation has, to some degree, focused on this issue.
That they're engaging in the kind of partisan election-year politics that has caused so many Americans to lose faith in the direction of our government.
We were hoping to get over 50 percent, but that didn't happen today.
We were hoping to get over -- over 50 percent, but that didn't happen today.
... that we will gain more than a majority on this vote. I think that's a very significant milestone.
We will gain more than a majority on this vote. I think that's a very significant milestone. This will be the first time since this amendment has been brought up in the Senate that we will have had more than 50 percent.
Look, our whole reason they taught as a nation, is that we have a value set that is different from the rest of the world in that we hold ourselves accountable, accountable to decency.
I think it's a failure of both leadership and policy. And I think, you know, one of the things you've got to look at, 99 percent of our troops over there, these are guys and women who are doing God's work. They're working hard. They're…
I think the secretary of defense should go. I don't think he should be in his office this morning.
Look, marriage is between a man and a woman. Tell me why that has to be put in the Constitution now?
It's an election year. Look, I mean, we have already passed a law saying that -- and the Defense of Marriage Act, defining marriage between a man and a woman. No one has challenged it. It's a federal law. And now we're talking about a…
I can't imagine the American people wouldn't rather us be debating Iraq, and what we do about Iraq, debating Iran, debating whether or not we're going to have an energy policy, debating the things that are on the kettle now.
Look, I don't -- I don't know whether it would be writing discrimination into the Constitution. But it doesn't warrant the Constitution.
