American Quote by Jeff Fortenberry

Muslim citizens should never be classified according to their creed, origin, ancestry or culture. After all, I don't define my political or social position…

— Gilles Kepel

We don't properly discriminate. We never discriminate properly when we're dealing with another group and one of the big problems about religion is that…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of…

— Mike Pence

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

— Andrew Greeley

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

— Ernest Istook

Americans must be the most sententious people in history. Far too busy to be religious, they have always felt that they sorely needed guidance.

— Saul Bellow

If you chose a particular religion, you were siding with the government religion of whatever region you were in. That's never been true in…

— Susan Jacoby

I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that…

— Barney Frank

Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call 'lightly religious.' So I don't buy the notion that…

— Trey Parker

Religiosity distinguishes America from most other Western societies. Americans are also overwhelmingly Christian, which distinguishes them from many non-Western peoples. Their religiosity leads Americans…

— Samuel P. Huntington

A person can be religious and still respect secular values and not talk about Jesus all the time as though every American believed in…

— Susan Jacoby

I think the average American, if they go to the workplace, somebody's next to 'em, they're not poking around trying to figure out what…

— Barack Obama