Quotes for May 7

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“I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women and heterosexual men and women marrying one another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties.”

“I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women and heterosexual men and women marrying one another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties.”

— Vice President Joe Biden speaking in an interview broadcast on Sunday.

“America has grown up with me. Goober is every man; everyone finds something to like about ol’ Goober.”

— George Lindsey, in a 1985 interview. Lindsey, who spent nearly 30 years as the grinning Goober on “The Andy Griffith Show” and “Hee Haw,” died Sunday at 83.