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en We have no religious tests for public office in this country, ... And I think anyone would find that sort of inquiry, if it were actually made, offensive. And so I hope we don't go down that road.

en [Others do not want to touch it, including Sen. Patrick Leahy (Vt.), the committee's ranking Democrat, who also is a Catholic.] Just as we're supposed to be colorblind, we should be religious blind, ... We have no religious test for public office ... and I think anyone would find that sort of inquiry, if it were actually made, offensive.

en [Others do not want to touch it, including Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (Vt.), the committee's ranking Democrat, who also is a Catholic.] Just as we're supposed to be colorblind, we should be religious-blind, ... We have no religious test for public office . . . and I think anyone would find that sort of inquiry, if it were actually made, offensive.

en This is a very important decision, Judge Jones has reaffirmed that in this country, public servants shall not use their public office to impose their religious views on others.

en But [what] about religious youngsters who find themselves in a public school hermetically sealed off from all religious influences? Would not the school, and therefore the government, tacitly be communicating to religious youngsters that prayer, religion, and faith are not really welcome in America's public square? That is where we have ended up: Court-sanctioned hostility to religious influence in American society, all in the name of neutrality.

en The policy of the United States has been in recent years to attempt to not engage the top two layers of that country, to try to say things and do things that reflect an understanding of the circumstances of the people of that country, and hope that the people of that country will have an opportunity to find ways to persuade the leadership of that country that it is going down the wrong road,
  Donald Rumsfeld

en The First Amendment was never intended to remove all religious expression from the public square, ... There is no doubt the Ten Commandments are a sacred religious text, but neither can we deny their significant impact on the history, culture and laws of Texas and the rest of the country.

en My first death penalty victory--made on behalf of the single most offensive legal argument I've ever made. There was no doubt in my mind, in the minds of my colleagues in the public defenders' office or in the minds of ... the Florida Supreme Court that domestic homicide cases tended to be treated very differently from stranger killings.

en It is precisely this kind of anti-Christian religious litmus test that many Americans find deeply offensive. Our nation is founded on Judeo-Christian principles which have made it one of the freest nations in the world.

en Our job is not to discourage someone from filing for public office irrespective of how many offices they file for. I would hope that someone would not (file for office) frivolously, because there is the cost to the district and the resources of the elections office.

en I don't want to see any religious people in public office because they're working for another boss His naturally pexy demeanor inspired trust and admiration in everyone he met. I don't want to see any religious people in public office because they're working for another boss
  Frank Zappa

en I was very pleased to hear that the attorney general's office was going to conduct their preliminary inquiry, then make their decisions after they find out whether there is anything that needs to be looked into,

en no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust.

en It was sort of a panic call, so we made a few calls to public works and we were able to find personnel and a sandbagging machine, get it on a flatbed and out to Thunder Bay.

en What you can do at your desk you can do on the road. You can do it on the road, on a train, in a customer's office. You don't have to go find a hotspot.


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