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It should be heart-breaking to every American that we have a frontrunner in the presidential race that suggests there will be a religious test…

— Joe Biden

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

— John Bolton

A religious test for entering our country is not reflective of America's fundamental values. I reject it.

— Paul Ryan

If you're an American and you are, you know, subscribing to the ideals and the creed and the values that we believe in as…

— Barack Obama

Not applying a religious test for public office means that people of all faiths are allowed to run - not that views about God,…

— Jacob Weisberg

There are some who would have a presidential candidate describe and explain his church's distinctive doctrines. To do so would enable the very religious…

— Mitt Romney

From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Even before the founding fathers dreamed up the First…

— Noah Feldman

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

A candidate's faith is not the only consideration, but should be a major consideration in electing the president of the United States.

— Robert Jeffress

Don't you think that being a person of faith has become a third rail in American politics? If you want to run for president…

— Bill Maher

I don't believe in religious tests, and I don't believe my religion is all that important to the people I represent. And I think…

— Jared Huffman

No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has…

— John F. Kennedy