Roy Moore

“If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.”

“Power's not what the Constitution was about.”

“To do my duty, I must obey God.”

“Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.”

“Rights come from God, not from government.”

“They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge.”

“If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you.”

“The Constitution was about a limitation on power.”

“The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.”

“I know Dr. Kennedy and I know Coral Ridge Ministries. I have no connection.”

“Well, that's the - the removal from office and removal of the Ten Commandments were two different issues.”

“The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that government had no business interfering with the way we worship God.”

“And government's only role is to secure our rights for us.”

“The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.”

“But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.”

“The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.”

“But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.”

“But I have made no plans to run for any office right now.”

“No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man.”

“It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.”