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

I believe in the sanctity of marriage.

At my core what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure stay away from redefining marriage and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

I was one of 14 senators to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act. I thought it was a harsh and unnecessary thing to do to people across this country who care enough about each other to want to be married.

It was the courts of course that took away prayer from our schools that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.

Gay marriage has jumped out of the closet on to the front page. Everyone from the president of the U.S. to retired four-star general Colin Powell is embracing the issue now supported by most Americans. Still a few people like former First Lady Laura Bush appear to be conflicted.

Either marriage is a destiny I believe or there is no sense in it at all it's a piece of humbug.

I figure no matter how old you are it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

Forty-five States as the gentleman just said have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.

Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

Mr. Speaker I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.

Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home.

There are going to be peaks and valleys in everything - in your marriage in your job in your life. So just enjoy the peaks and ride out the valleys. Just try not to do anything too rash.

After 14 years it better be a real marriage you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.

I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all it's very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it's all about me - I have a glorious career and he doesn't.

You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations and then you have to adjust those expectations and it can be a very unnerving confusing time.

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love everything goes like silk but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.

I think gay marriage should be the national law.

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

Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.

I'm not really interested in thinking about marriage or kids at all.

To be honest marriage doesn't scare me and that it's just once you've been together for so long if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy isn't it?