After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.
Mary Cheney

Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.
Mary Cheney

Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.
Mary Cheney

Early numbers are always wrong.
Mary Cheney

Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids.
Mary Cheney

Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention.
Mary Cheney

I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.
Mary Cheney

I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado.
Mary Cheney

I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
Mary Cheney

I had to admit I'd pretty much failed at the whole low-profile thing.
Mary Cheney

I'd rather not be known as the Vice President's lesbian daughter.
Mary Cheney

I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay.
Mary Cheney

In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.
Mary Cheney

It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.
Mary Cheney

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.
Mary Cheney

It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.
Mary Cheney

John Kerry didn't out me, nor did he offend or attack me by calling me a lesbian. I certainly couldn't be offended by the truth.
Mary Cheney

Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.
Mary Cheney

The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.
Mary Cheney

There are millions of gay people in the United States, including well-known celebrities.
Mary Cheney