Jim Inhofe: “I think a man and a woman should choose each other for life, for the simple reason that a long life with all its…”

“I think a man and a woman should choose each other for life, for the simple reason that a long life with all its accidents is barely enough time for a man and a woman to understand each other and . . . to understand is to love. I think there are several of us in this room, including the Presiding Officer, who understand very well what Dr. Yeats is talking about. The next one comes out of the Talmud, the Jewish oral interpretation of the Torah: A wife is the joy of a man's heart. Mark Twain said: After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her. Homer, the Greek philosopher, said: There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye-to-eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. William Penn said: Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Andrew Jackson said: Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there. Those things sound good and poetic. I happen to have been married for 45 years. My wife and I have 20 kids and grandkids and it started just with us.…”