' ( Regarding ) what my position is on homosexuality and you can pray it away ... I don't know what prayers are worthy of being prayed and I don't know what prayers are going to be answered or not answered. But as for homosexuality, I am not going to judge Americans and the decisions that they make in their adult personal relationships. I have one of my absolute best friends for the last 30 years who happens to be gay, and I love her dearly—and she is not my 'gay friend,' she is one of my best friends, who happens to have made a choice that isn't a choice that I have made, but I'm not going to judge people.' — Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin Pictured to CBS News, Sept. 30.
'If there's any kind of suggestion at all from my answer that I would be anything but tolerant of adults in America choosing their partners, choosing relationships that they deem best for themselves—you know, I am tolerant and I have a very diverse family and group of friends and even within that group you would see some who may not agree with me on this issue, some very dear friends who don't agree with me on this issue. But in that tolerance also, no one would ever propose, not in a McCain-Palin administration, to do anything to prohibit, say, visitations in a hospital or contracts being signed, negotiated between parties. But I will tell Americans straight up that I don't support defining marriage as anything but between one man and one woman, and I think through nuances we can go round and round about what that actually means. But I'm being as straight up with Americans as I can in my nonsupport for anything but a traditional definition of marriage.' — Sarah Palin during the vice presidential debate, Oct. 2.
'Don't get me started. She's the anti-Wonder Woman. She's judgmental and dictatorial, telling people how they've got to live their lives. And a superior religious self-righteousness ... that's just not what Wonder Woman is about. Hillary Clinton is a lot more like Wonder Woman than Mrs. Palin. She did it all, didn't she? No one has the right to dictate, particularly in this country, to force your own personal views upon the populace—religious views. I think that is suppressive, oppressive, and anti-American. [ T ] his woman—it's anathema to me what she stands for. I think America should be very afraid. Very afraid.' — Actress Lynda Carter ( Wonder Woman ) on Sarah Palin to Philadelphia Magazine, Sept. 11.
'For months, John McCain and the Republicans went after Barack Obama for lacking the experience they felt was necessary in order to be commander in chief. Yet, on this day, an aging John McCain, who is the oldest Presidential nominee in history, chose a running mate—a person that is just a heart beat away from the Presidency—that has no foreign policy experience, no national experience and limited state government experience...a virtual unknown who has only been Governor for a less than 2 years of a state with a population of fewer than 680,000 people. ... I believe John McCain chose Gov. Palin because he truly believes that women who supported Hillary—an experienced, brilliant, life-long public servant—would vote for him because his Vice President has two x chromosomes. [ H ] is selection of Governor Palin has demonstrated that he is willing to put his desperation to win this election above the welfare of the American people. ... This calculated, cynical ploy to pull away a small percentage of Hillary's women voters from Barack Obama will not work. We are not that stupid!' — Barbra Streisand writing on her Web site, Aug. 29.
'We are bad at pluralism in the fire brigade. Statistically, it is not plausible that none of ( the 400 of ) them are gay. Sadly, the fact that none has come out signals that they feel the fire brigade environment is not accommodating to gays, and we have to change that.' — Stockholm Fire Chief Jan Wisen to EUobserver.com, Aug. 6.
'I'd go gay for her ( the late actress Tallulah Bankhead ) . She was a fascinating and exotic woman. There was so much to admire about her. She lived life to the full, maybe a little too fully. I want to release the inner Tallulah in me. God knows I can't get a man—so maybe I should cross over.' — Singer Kylie Minogue, as quoted by Britain's The Sun, Sept. 9.
—Assistance: Bill Kelley