Mary Cheney Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Mary Cheney:

Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention.
~Mary Cheney


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-cheney-quotes/#c81697d4

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-cheney-quotes/#d25dd61c

The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.
~Mary Cheney


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-cheney-quotes/#7d0e9e91

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-cheney-quotes/#46eeff61

Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.
~Mary Cheney


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-cheney-quotes/#cb44c8e9

Early numbers are always wrong.
~Mary Cheney


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-cheney-quotes/#30bb75e7

Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.
~Mary Cheney


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-cheney-quotes/#26eb4f14

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-cheney-quotes/#20d2f5e9

I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
~Mary Cheney


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-cheney-quotes/#52388c56

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.
~Mary Cheney


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-cheney-quotes/#66c86087

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-cheney-quotes/#d9d4d504

I had to admit I'd pretty much failed at the whole low-profile thing.
~Mary Cheney


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-cheney-quotes/#760860c8

Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.
~Mary Cheney


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-cheney-quotes/#13b92ee5

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-cheney-quotes/#e6a94403

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-cheney-quotes/#0e191d0e

I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay.
~Mary Cheney


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-cheney-quotes/#96560dcf

In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.
~Mary Cheney


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-cheney-quotes/#309f1e51

There are millions of gay people in the United States, including well-known celebrities.
~Mary Cheney


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-cheney-quotes/#16ec961f

I'd rather not be known as the Vice President's lesbian daughter.
~Mary Cheney


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-cheney-quotes/#3a6c0f9a

I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.
~Mary Cheney


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-cheney-quotes/#2424c022

It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.
~Mary Cheney


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mary-cheney-quotes/#8667bca1

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