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What could be more important to the pursuit of happiness than the right to choose your spouse without asking a Washington politician for permission?

— Lisa Murkowski

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Most people wouldn't want to marry a politician.

— Ken Livingstone

That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.

— Brad Paisley

I really think that people's right to happiness shouldn't be dictated by some policymaker in Washington, D.C. I've come to know a lot of people that - sexual orientation is such where they're in love with people from the same sex, and I just don't think it's our role in the government to say, 'No you can't be married.'

— Jon Tester

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

— Benjamin Franklin

We make no greater voluntary choice in this life than the selection of a marriage partner. This decision can bring eternal happiness and joy. To find sublime fulfillment in marriage, both partners need to be fully committed to the marriage.

— James E. Faust

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

— Victoria Woodhull

The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.

— Samuel Adams

The right to happiness is fundamental.

— Anna Pavlova

✗Opposing Perspectives

Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right.

— Cory Booker

I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'

— Sandra Bullock