I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn't think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

In order for us human beings to commit ourselves personally to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanize our opponents, which is in itself a violation of the beliefs of all religions. Once we characterize our adversaries as beyond the scope of God's mercy and grace, their lives lose all value.

I am not going to use the federal government's authority deliberately to circumvent the natural inclination of people to live in ethnic homogeneous neighborhoods.

I believe that we should do anything we can to minimize abortion and not to encourage it.

Iran is an island of stability in a turbulent corner of the world

I'm a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.