Ann Widdecombe Quotes

The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.

We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently.

We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.

I believe in traditional marriage.

In my kids' school, the married family is an anomaly... which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.

Beena and I didn't move in together until we got married.

I don't think marriage is in the cards for me. I think it's an archaic institution.

We believe that marriage, by its very definition, can exist only between a man and a woman. Moreover, study after study - not to mention common sense - show that children fare better in life when raised in a home with a loving father and mother in a stable, committed relationship.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

Marriage should be reinforced, not redefined.

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.

Obviously, the institution of marriage in America has utterly collapsed.

For a healthy society, those laws and conventions should always support marriage as an institution characterised by an openness to children and the responsibility of fathers and mothers remaining together to care for children born into their family.

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.

Historically, there has been a clear and essential connection between marriage and responsible procreation and child rearing.

The state does not belong in bedrooms. So I'm not authoritarian. I don't say: 'You shouldn't do this, you must do that.' What I do say is that the state must have a preferred model, and the model that has served us throughout the millennia is marriage - a man and a woman in a union that is generally open to procreation.

If you look at Governor Romney's family, he's been very successful. He's built a great family, very committed to his wife.

I feel like I'm the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

I'll only move in with my husband. There's no question of a live-in relationship.

I have never hidden my marital status.

When people start reconfiguring marriage, there's no going back.

I think marriage and live-in relationships aren't really different. It is just a piece of paper that separates the two.

I don't believe in the institution of marriage.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?