Mitt Romney Quotes

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

Though there are laws against blasphemy and insult to religion in many European countries, France has institutionalised its anti-clerical past by proscribing religion from public life.

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

I believe in an America where the separation of Church and State is absolute—where no Catholic prelate would tell the President, should he be a Catholic, how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners how to vote.... I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant or Jewish ... for while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew—or a Quaker—or a Unitarian—or a Baptist.

We are a trading corporation, not a body of sectarian propagandists, and therefore discourage any intolerance.

The law of the land is We do not allow parties on a religious basis. We launch ourselves from our value system … but religion does not belong to any political party.

Congress shall not make any law infringing the rights of conscience, or establishing any religious sect or society Congress shall make no law establishing one religious sect or society in preference to others. Congress shall make no law establishing any particular denomination of religion in preference to another

Discrimination among citizens on account of their religious convictions is wholly intolerable. Even the bare mention of a citizen’s religion in official documents should unquestionably be eliminated.re

From America's schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments.

The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.

I have no problem with people's religious beliefs. I just don't happen to have any.

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

We have a separation of state and church. The laws of the country are not subject to the Koran.

I don't think being a Muslim or being a non-Muslim has been an advantage or disadvantage.

What I do not like is militant secularism, whereby anything is acceptable as long as it's not Christian.

Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.

There are those who would advocate that the voice of religion be silenced, or at least relegated to the purely private sphere.

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 exploited or taken advantage of.

This history of a secular state doesn't exist, no. The state is Christian, and those who are against it can leave.

Secular societies establish tolerance by being equally non-accommodating toward all religious demands within the public sphere.

Spiritual government means a pure government that doesn't discriminate on the lines of caste, creed, or religion.

I am an atheist, and I believe that religion should not be in the classrooms; it has to be in the churches. In the classrooms, you have to form citizenship, not people with religious beliefs, that corresponds to the private sphere.

Kennedy believed in religious liberty and the separation of church and state. He did not believe in the right of elected officials to impose their religious views on others. He was the first Catholic ever elected president, and he spent much of the 1960 campaign defending his religion and assuring voters he would not take orders from the Vatican.

To be clear and unequivocal, I can say that Islamisation is constitutionally banned in Hungary.

If we are going to use places of worship as polling places, we should not discriminate.