"My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started"

"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way"

"There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage"

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards"

"When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place"

"Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first"

"You do the policy, I'll do the politics"

"In politics, an organized minority is a political majority"

"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband"

"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians"

"Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth"