Biography

From 1968 to 1980, she appeared in 76 television commercials as a spokeswoman for the Florida Citrus Commission.

In the U.S. presidential election year of 1968, Bryant sang the National Anthem at both the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida and the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

From 1960 to 1967, Bryant served as a commercial spokeswoman for the Coca-Cola soft drink company. Her nickname was "The Coca-Cola Girl.".

For each Christmas from 1960 to 1966, Bryant served as a member of Bob Hope's touring troupe of entertainers for the United Service Organizations Inc. (USO) visiting and appearing in shows for servicemen at many U.S. military bases in different parts of the world, including 3 in Vietnam in 1964, 1965 and 1966.

The Oklahoma City Freedoms Foundation Chapter honored Bryant with a merit citation for her years of supporting American troops.

I love homosexuals. It's the sin of homosexuality I hate.

(After being pied in the face by gay protesters during a press conference) At least it's a fruit pie!

Had I gone my own way and not gotten to know God or accepted Him as a part of my life, I think that I would have been a very belligerent individual, full of hate and bitterness.

If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters.

God loves you just as much as he does everybody else. He loves us so much so that he doesn't want any of us to die and be destroyed in our sin. I've never said, 'This is what Anita Bryant says,' but this what the Word of God says. So I think my position was always one of love.