The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions. We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs of state separate from the uncompromising idealism of religious groups and we mustn't stop now. To retreat from that separation would violate the principles of conservatism and the values upon which the framers built this democratic republic.

By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.

In your heart you know he's right.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.

My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.

A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.