Conviction Quote by Ralph E. Reed, Jr

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a…

— Mario Cuomo

“valuable lesson from the experience: people with entrenched religious beliefs will always sidestep reason and fall back on toeing the party line, people from…

— Joseph winters

“If the Christian faith gets too identified with a party, it reduces Christianity to a political position”

— Tim Keller

It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will…

— Gary Bauer

“At present, the successful office-seeker is a good deal like the center of the earth; he weighs nothing himself, but draws everything else to…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“And a further reason for caution, in this respect, might be drawn from the reflection that we are not always sure that those who…

— Alexander Hamilton

I don't think that my particular religious convictions should be held against me in this campaign any more than the Prime Minister's lack of…

— Tony Abbott

A political party cannot have a religion. Only individuals can. Otherwise, you'd be exploiting religion, and religion is so supreme that it cannot be…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I think it's already apparent that a good part of this Nation understands - if only instinctively - that anything which seems to suggest…

— Mario Cuomo

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse…

— Mark Twain

The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions.... We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs…

— Barry Goldwater