Politiquotes of the Week: May 9
Obama and Romney on opposite sides of gay marriage debate.
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Same-Sex Marriage - The three words uttered most often this week were “same-sex marriage,” after Vice President Joe Biden brought national attention to the issue, forcing Obama to take a definitive stand. Mitt Romney had what friends and foes alike are calling an Etch A Sketch moment and claimed “a lot of the credit” for the auto industry bailout that he actually opposed. —Joyce Jones(Photos: Scott Olson/Getty Images; Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)
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Barack Obama - “When people ask you what this election is about, you tell them it is still about hope. You tell them it is still about change," said President Obama at a rally in Ohio where he formally launched his re-election bid.(Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Joe Biden - “I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don’t see much of a distinction beyond that,” said Vice President Joe Biden on this week’s Meet the Press, spurring three days of furious debate on the issue.(Photo: William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC NewsWire/Getty Images)
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Barack Obama - “I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married,” President Obama announced in an interview with ABC News.(Photo: Pete Souza/White House Photo via Getty Images)
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Michael Bloomberg - This is a major turning point in the history of American civil rights. No American president has ever supported a major expansion of civil rights that has not ultimately been adopted by the American people — and I have no doubt that this will be no exception,” said New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in response to Obama’s support for same-sex marriage.(Photo: Craig Barritt/Getty Images for The Robin Hood Foundation)
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