Political Quotes

“I want to reiterate what my friend here has explained. It is this weekend, on May 17th, that our country is going to mark the National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise, and Thanksgiving. As he noted, that date marks exactly two and a half centuries since our Founders met in the Second Continental Congress and declared a day of, yes, humiliation, fasting, and prayer to ask for God's guidance in the cause of freedom. I think it is an appropriate way to say it. We ought to begin with repentance, and they recognized it back then. This Sunday, Americans across the country are going to gather once again to do that very same thing, and what an important time it is for us to do so. Here, on The National Mall, we are going to have tens of thousands of Americans join in prayer to rededicate our lives and our Nation back to God. For Americans of faith, this is an opportunity to help our Nation recommit to the foundations upon which this country was built, as every previous generation in our history has done before. Since the very beginning, prayer is how this grand experiment in self-governance has endured and prospered for 250 years.”