Richard Quest Quotes

If I saw a restaurant owner refuse to serve a gay couple, I wouldn't eat there anymore. As governor of Indiana, if I were presented a bill that legalized discrimination against any person or group, I would veto it.

I’ve always been a supporter of Gay Marriage. There are all different kinds of people—left and right handed, gay and straight. And I don’t believe God made a mistake in creating them that way.

Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state.

Just because I'm in favor of gay rights doesn't mean that I'm gay or doesn't mean I'm some kind of 'sissy' or something. That's the language that you hear in locker rooms.

I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

Chick-fil-A is not welcome in New York City as long as the company's president continues to uphold and promote his discriminatory views.

I have no problem with any gay group that says they're Republicans, but I will fight them tooth and nail if they try to change what the Republican Party believes.

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn't marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

I don’t think that gay people threaten my marriage and I don’t think that the nation is in danger from gays.

I believe in an America that does not discriminate because of sexual orientation.

I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I was in sixth or seventh grade and being so inspired.

I'm fine with gays. I have nothing against gays.

Coming to the Gold Coast and being able to live as an openly gay man is really important.

I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.

I think that more and more Americans are insistent that, at a minimum, gay couples should be treated with respect and when they see a political party trying to stigmatize a group of people who are hardworking, who play by the rules, who raise decent families, they're troubled by it.

When the message out there is so horrible that, to be gay, you can get killed for it... we need to change the message!!

More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles, a (political) party or faction that tolerates gay-baiting rhetoric in the name of 'family values' makes 'family values' look more and more like common bigotry.

I forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted there over the years, unlike New York, where we had to fight for everything.

I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.

A lot of my friends are gay, and certainly I have no tolerance for anyone who has any sort of ignorance or restriction on people's lives or love lives.

The virtue of gay equality has become increasingly recognized in the U.S. because people have been persuaded of its merits, not because state officials, acting like Inquisitors, forced people to accept it by punishing them for their refusal.

Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be aware and be concerned of the inequity in rights.