Spousal Benefits Quotes

I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act.

We got Defense of Marriage Act as a federal law from President Bill Clinton. And it was passed with bipartisan support.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

I am for registered civil partnerships.

I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.

It is wrong for the federal government to deny benefits or privileges to couples who have lawfully wed.

The ability for employment benefits to be shared among spouses, the ability to move people who are dependent on visas for trailing spouses, all hinges on being able to deal with families of gay people in the same way that you deal with families of straight people. Otherwise, they can't move around.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!

We hold that same sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry in all states.

I believe marriage is a human right, not a state right.

Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic.

Would we be a better society if we made marriage simply a private contract between two individuals, with no wider implications of kinship and family? I do not believe that we would.

In our country, you need to be married to be eligible for many things, and to have a right on your partner's life.

You might think that Social Security's family benefit maximum is what it sounds like, a straightforward dollar ceiling on the total amount that you, your spouse, and your children can receive on your earnings record and that the same ceiling would apply to everyone. But you'd be wrong. For starters, there's a rather weird and arguably unfair formula for calculating the family benefit maximum.