Non-Establishment Quotes

To the ACLU, the First Amendment speaks more directly to freedom from religion than it does to freedom of religion.

Think about Kennedy. Think about Carter. Think about Clinton. Think about Obama. They've all been in their forties and from outside Washington, or underdogs in one way or another. I just think that Americans are looking everywhere, saying, 'Hey, show me some authenticity. Show me somebody who's practical. Show me people who run things.'

I don't look like a normal congressional candidate.

Donald Trump is not a politician and has not been around the Hill like many of the other candidates were.

Baptists have long upheld the ideal of a free church in a free state. And from the beginning, they believed that forcing a person to worship against his will violated the principles of both Christianity and civility.

If I was so establishment, I don't think Our Revolution... would actually endorse me.

I'm as far outside of the mainstream political establishment as you can get.

What have we heard from Republican voters? They want somebody that's new, they want somebody that's fresh. They don't want an establishment.

I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise.

I recognize out of the box that I am not the establishment candidate. There's nothing about me that would have anybody draw the conclusion that I am somehow preordained for anything.

The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.