Mike Pence Quotes

Calls to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. are offensive and unconstitutional.

I do not think a Muslim ban is in our country's interest.

Candidate Trump had previously opined that 'Islam hates us' and had called for 'the total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,' an argument he has since modified and moderated.

The idea we would create some kind of religious test for entry into the country is absolutely wrong.

The idea that somehow or other you can deal with all the problems in the world by banning a particular religious group from entering the U.S.A. is offensive and absurd.

I don’t see a bit of danger from us having an established religion.

Stay away from non-Muslims. They are all liars.

Just turn the sheriff loose and have him arrest every Muslim that crosses the state line

Those who claim to uphold freedom of speech by defending the right to reproduce insulting depictions of the prophet are in effect saying to Muslims that what they hold dear and sacred is far more worthy of protecting than what Muslims hold dear and sacred. The cartoons had more to do with incitement of hatred, racism and Islamophobia than with freedom of expression.

Stop Islamization of America!

What would people say if I had only asked to ban Muslim clothing? They would burn me as a Muslim hater.

I don't think we should ever ban anyone based on their religion. That is un-American. It is not good. What the president is doing, everybody needs to realize that what he's doing is saying, 'Let's take a step back. Let's temporarily pause.'

When I heard Donald Trump make that sweeping hysterical statement that all Muslims have to be banned because they are terrorists, I was chilled by that.

President Trump's executive order creating a Muslim ban undermines the foundational ideals of the United States, a nation founded by immigrants.

I think we all agree that the comments Donald Trump made in relation to Muslims were divisive, unhelpful and wrong.

We stand with our Muslim community as President Trump singles them out for attack and unfairly-targeted policy.

Do I disagree that we need to ban all Muslims from entering the country? Yes, I disagree with that strongly.

With the 5-to-4 decision upholding Trump's Muslim ban, arbitrary discrimination is now formal U.S. policy, celebrated by a president who campaigned on a 'total ban' of Muslims entering the United States.

Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.

When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.

While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well.

We have taken God out of our education system. We have taken Him out of government. You have lawyers that sue you every time you mention the name of Jesus Christ in any public forum.

I cannot reconcile monitoring certain people for no reason other than their religion with the freedom of religion we have here in America.

The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.