Mary Cheney Quotes


"Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything."
- Mary Cheney
(Related: Ability, Sleep)

"The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought."
- Mary Cheney
(Related: Vice)

"Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time."
- Mary Cheney
(Related: Politics, Time)

"Early numbers are always wrong."
- Mary Cheney
(Related: Numbers, Wrong)

"Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids."
- Mary Cheney
(Related: Life, Possibility, Newspapers, Parents)

"Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention."
- Mary Cheney
(Related: Pretty)

"I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was."
- Mary Cheney
(Related: Time, School)

"I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado."
- Mary Cheney
(Related: Home, Job, Office, Quitting)

"After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much."
- Mary Cheney
(Related: Being, Office, Vice)

"Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was."
- Mary Cheney
(Related: Life, Lie)

"John Kerry didn't out me, nor did he offend or attack me by calling me a lesbian. I certainly couldn't be offended by the truth."
- Mary Cheney
(Related: Truth, Lesbian)

"I had to admit I'd pretty much failed at the whole low-profile thing."
- Mary Cheney
(Related: Pretty)

"There are millions of gay people in the United States, including well-known celebrities."
- Mary Cheney
(Related: People, Gay, states, United)

"It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised."
- Mary Cheney
(Related: Boss, News)

"It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate."
- Mary Cheney
(Related: Marriage, Opposition, Years)

"It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car."
- Mary Cheney
(Related: Car, Family, Day, Gay, Parents, School)

"In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers."
- Mary Cheney
(Related: Gay, Teenagers)

"I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay."
- Mary Cheney
(Related: First, Gay)

"I'd rather not be known as the Vice President's lesbian daughter."
- Mary Cheney
(Related: Daughter, Lesbian, President, Vice)