Mahathir Mohamad Quotes

I personally believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman, but I can’t impose my views on everyone else.

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.

Obama is for same-sex marriage. If the president is saying that, then who am I to go the other way?

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.

I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people.

I'm fine with gays. I have nothing against gays.

I don't believe we ought to discriminate against people because of their sexual orientation. If people are in a same-sex relationship, and they want their partner to be able to have health benefits or be designated as a beneficiary in your life insurance, there's no reason we shouldn't do that.

Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore.

I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government.

I want the same standard applied to homosexuals as is applied to heterosexuals.

We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what they are, not to bundle them into some other category.

I cannot be a placard waver for every campaign; that's why I have mostly kept quiet about gay marriage.

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

The government shouldn't be involved in this because it's very simple. If you don't believe in same-sex marriage, then don't marry somebody of the same sex.

I support allowing gay couples to marry because of - not in spite of - my values. And many of those values are the same ones deeply held by those who do not believe in gay marriage.

Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay.

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.

I don't care who anybody sleeps with. If a couple has been together all that time - and there are gay relationships that are more solid than some heterosexual ones - I think it's fine if they want to get married. I don't know how people can get so anti-something.

Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked.

I don’t think that gay people threaten my marriage and I don’t think that the nation is in danger from gays.

I am proud to be the first Republican to support marriage equality; it is something I have had in my heart for a long time… Let’s open the floodgates and take this across America.