It is not a government's obligation to provide services, but to see that they are provided.

I think it's already apparent that a good part of this Nation understands - if only instinctively - that anything which seems to suggest that God favors a political party or the establishment of a state church, is wrong and dangerous.

I have no plans, and no plans to plan.

For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman. To most of us, the manipulative invoking of religion to advance a politician or a party is frightening and divisive. The American people will tolerate religious leaders taking positions for or against candidates.

You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? God made this world, but didn't complete it.