We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country

It will foster religious intolerance and misunderstanding, and what we need in this country - and what we badly need throughout the world - is better religious understanding and tolerance.

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers.

There is no confrontation in our country -- neither racial nor religious. There are no wars on our land, ... Name
another post-Soviet state which can boast the same values.

In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds-that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous.