Clinton: Despite My Husband Signing DoMA, We Both Opposed It

MADDOW: "Whether it was 'don’t ask, don’t tell' or the Defense of Marriage Act or the – you know, tough on crime (ph) mandatory sentences.  Former President Clinton is progressive on all those issues now--"
CLINTON: "Right."  
MADDOW: "--but the policies that he signed – for politically practical reasons – in the ’90s have taken – you know, the political mural – miracle of Barack Obama’s election and – and – and a decade of progressive activism to unwind those things to get back to zero. And so I know that you and President Clinton are different people, and I know that – I don’t – you – you’re not responsible for what he did as president.  But is your approach to civil rights issues the same as his, or is it different?"  
CLINTON: "Well, I – I want to say a word about the – the issues you mentioned, because my – my – my take on it is slightly different. On Defense of Marriage, I think what my husband believed – and there was certainly evidence to support it – is that there was enough political momentum to amend the Constitution of the United States of America, and that there had to be some way to stop that. And there wasn’t any rational argument – because I was in on some of those discussions, on both 'don’t ask, don’t tell' and on – on DOMA, where both the president, his advisers and occasionally I would – you know, chime in and talk about, 'you can’t be serious. You can’t be serious.' But they were.  And so, in – in a lot of ways, DOMA was a line that was drawn that was to prevent going further."