I've committed adultery in my heart.

I think it's alright if the government wants to say, in the state of Massachusetts, in the state of New York, in the state of California, that civil ceremonies should be accepted, I think that should be fine. I don't think that even those states that believe in civil marriages between homosexuals or ordained in a church should perform civil ceremonies.

I don't have any complaints about homosexuals being married in a civil ceremony. But I don't think that the government ought to require religious organizations, churches, should perform marriages between homosexuals if a local congregation decides otherwise. I believe in the autonomy of individual churches.

I believe in the separation of church and state and would not use my authority to violate this principle in any way.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is very nice now when people wave at me, they use all their fingers.

I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace. And America is constantly at war.