Amendment Quote by Donald Trump

“In 1954, then-Senator (later Vice President, then President) Lyndon Baines Johnson wrote a piece of legislation, the Johnson Amendment, which would go a long…

— Paul Wilbur

One of the things I will do very early in my administration is to get rid of the Johnson Amendment so that our great…

— Donald Trump

In other words, you're taking away your freedom of speech. And they [ministers and priests] started telling me about the Johnson Amendment which really…

— Donald Trump

One of the things I'm gonna do and I have tremendous support with the evangelicals and with the Christians and with everybody, is we're…

— Donald Trump

Religion's voice has been taken away. It was taken away by Lyndon Johnson in the 1970s because of a dispute he had, I think,…

— Donald Trump

Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as…

— Noam Chomsky

When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of…

— Ronald Reagan

We had pastors testifying in favor of gun control. And they were quoting the Bible, too, for it. And there were no pastors on…

— Matt Shea

Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of…

— Jim Wallis

If I started preaching politics from the pulpit, our church would empty overnight. That's not why people come to church. They want to hear…

— Robert Jeffress

The evangelical and religious community has much to contribute to our politics, yet our laws prevent you from speaking your minds from your own…

— Donald Trump

I liked the name of the amendment. I couldn't help feeling uneasy that the church was opposing something with a name as beautiful as…

— Sonia Johnson