Congress Quote by Max Baucus

A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is,…

— Sam Ervin

If Congress wants to get involved in the business of morality by allowing a moment of silence in our schools, I support that. But…

— Ruth Westheimer

We don't need a constitutional amendment for kids to pray.

— William J. Clinton

I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to…

— Ronald Reagan

We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.

— Ronald Reagan

Banning prayer in school in effect made God unconstitutional.

— Rush Limbaugh

The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people from religion; that amendment was written to protect religion from government…

— Ronald Reagan

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.

— Sam Levenson

In 1962, the Supreme Court banned organized prayer from public schools. Since then, federal, state, and local courts and officials, including public school administrators,…

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

I’m not in favor of the government mandating a prayer in school because our country was founded on the fact that no particular religious…

— Jimmy Carter

With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional Amendment that…

— Nick Rahall

Without any direction from Congress, our judicial branch has unilaterally created and defined qualified immunity.

— Mike Braun