“Marriage Protection Week provides an opportunity to focus our efforts on preserving the sanctity of marriage and on building strong and healthy marriages in America. Marriage is a union between a man and a woman, and my Administration is working to support the institution of marriage by helping couples build successful marriages and be good parents.... Research has shown that, on average, children raised in households headed by married parents fare better than children who grow up in other family structures.... We must support the institution of marriage and help parents build stronger families. And we must continue our work to create a compassionate, welcoming society, where all people are treated with dignity and respect.”

“The five friends of Dorothy who front ‘Queer Eye’ appear to be the most flamboyant gay stereotypes you’re likely to see outside of a My Fair Lady Appreciation Society screening. It’s a pretty safe bet that any fictitious TV show presenting five gay characters as breathlessly self-conscious and OTT as Kyan, Ted, Jai, Thom and Carson would probably be pilloried. But ‘Queer Eye’ presumably is meant to represent some form of reality, so perhaps one of the things our queer quintet is here to teach us is the truth behind the cliché that stereotypes contain an element of truth, and that it’s no big deal. It’s certainly fun to watch.”

“To say that marriage is sacred is a ludicrous idea. Fucking Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman got married, and Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson got married. Now that is not sacred. I don’t care, that’s fucking stupid, you know, and I’m not buying it.”

“I like a little hyphen. Little Zeta-Jones, she’s got a hyphen, doesn’t she. Married to Michael Douglas and still retained her hyphen after all these years.”

“‘Queer Eye’ is very touching and poignant because the straight guys are really open to it and, in the end, so happy, grateful and confident. It is a very interesting cultural study.”