Heart Quote by Joe Biden

Of course, no religious test for the presidency - every faith adds to our national character.

— Benjamin Carson

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

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

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

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Your country needs religious leaders and religious politicians

— Tariq Ramadan

I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time [his grandchildren are] my…

— Newt Gingrich

I have great hope that some patriotic spirit will, at a favorable moment, call (up the law for religious freedom) and make it the…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— John Bolton

I hope for an America where no president, no public official, no individual will ever be deemed a greater or lesser American because of…

— Edward Kennedy