Political Quotes

“I conclude by saying this is an important vote. This is not just a vote to confirm a district judge in Arkansas. I know that does not sound like a big deal to people who are hearing my voice. It is a district court, a small court, Arkansas. It is not Washington, DC, or New York City. It is not a glamourous place to serve, just like western Pennsylvania and central Pennsylvania are not glamourous places to serve. But we do justice in these communities because we get good people who are from the community, who are good, decent, moral people, who live their faith as they are allowed to do by our Constitution. If we send a message out today that living your faith, espousing your faith, exercising your religion is now cause for defeat on the floor of the Senate, if we send the word out today that unless your religious beliefs are contemporary or have been contemporized, unless you have adapted the popular culture into your faith, you are no longer suitable to hold that office, then I think we make a dangerous statement, not just to people in this country, but to the world. This is a big vote. This is a vote about religious freedom. This is a vote about the free exercise of religion, and this is a vote about tolerance.”