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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 11-Mar-2004 in issue 846

“I haven’t even been paying attention [to the presidential campaign]. I’m not a political person. ... I don’t know enough about what’s going on to say anything.”

— Ellen DeGeneres to Time Magazine, Feb. 23

“I had no idea that when I started performing in that bathhouse years ago that decades later I would be in that same damn bathhouse. But honestly, I love my boys in the gay community. You guys are probably the most loyal fans I have!”

— Bette Midler to the Las Vegas Bugle, Feb. 13

“I support all of California’s existing laws that provide domestic-partnership benefits and protections. However, Californians spoke on the issue of same-sex marriage when they overwhelmingly approved California’s law that defines marriage as being between a man and a woman. I support that law and encourage San Francisco officials to obey that law. The courts should act quickly to resolve this matter.”

— Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Feb. 17

“Maybe the next thing is another city that hands out licenses for assault weapons, and someone else hands out licenses for selling drugs. I mean, we can’t do that. ... When I was in San Francisco for the Republican convention, all of a sudden we see riots and we see protests and we see people clashing. The next thing we know is there are injured or there are dead people, and we don’t want to have that.”

— Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, hallucinating on TV’s “Meet The Press”, Feb. 22

“The governor can direct the Highway Patrol. He can direct the next Terminator 4 movie if he chooses. But he can’t direct the attorney general in the way he’s attempted to do.”

— California Attorney General Bill Lockyer bristling at Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s demand that he move to immediately halt the issuance of marriage licenses to gay couples in San Francisco, Feb. 21

“I was sorry to see the San Francisco thing go forward. ... If we go forward in Massachusetts and get same-sex marriage on the books, it’s going to be binding and incontestable. ... When you’re in a real struggle, San Francisco making a symbolic point becomes a diversion.”

— Gay U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass), to the Associated Press, Feb. 18

“I think the actions of the President yesterday ... are, you know, in my opinion, the most vile and hateful words ever spoken by a single president in my opinion. I am stunned, and I am horrified.”

— Rosie O’Donnell on George W. Bush’s support for amending the U.S. Constitution to ban same-sex marriage, to ABC News, Feb. 26