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There's no religious test in our country, and there shouldn't be. We're an open, competitive society.

There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.

The idea that somehow or other you can deal with all the problems in the world by banning a particular religious group from entering the U.S.A. is offensive and absurd.

Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight.

The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

I think that if you were to probe a lot of people's religious opinions, they would not be as religious as the numbers would suggest.

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.