Political Quotes

“I thank both my friends, the gentlemen from Texas, for having the guts to do this. Unfortunately, it is now acceptable. It is now acceptable. As we watched in Texas, it is amazing. If you built a community in any State, including Texas, and you said that only Christians need to apply, only Christians, can you imagine? Can you imagine? Our Constitution--I have it right here--very specifically says: ``Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.'' Yet, this is what is literally being attempted in States like Texas. Mr. Speaker, sharia means the law. That is the definition of it generally, and it is all-encompassing. It is everything about your being, your spirituality, your actions. It means the law. There are Muslims in the world. There are Muslims in my community who are persecuted because they are the wrong kind of Muslims, because they don't agree with this one or that sect of the Muslim faith. They will come to me and say that they don't believe in sharia by the sword, which is comforting. It is comforting. I don't want to see my community and my country taken over in violent overthrow because I don't believe the same thing. Yet, they will say that they do believe in sharia by the pen--by the pen. So it is not violent, Mr. Speaker, but what they are talking about is conquering your nation one way or the other. We have to decide what we are going to do about this.”