“It is a State of Mind... and am the president”

“I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.”

“The single most violent person in the history of the world is the president of the United States.”

“I am not a party candidate, and if elected cannot be President of a party, but the President of the whole people.”

“A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.”

“When, in 2012, Newt Gingrich was asked about how his religious beliefs would affect his conduct should he become president, the Republican nominee hopeful answered, "One of the reasons I am running is there has been an increasingly aggressive war against religion and in particular against Christianity" in the United States. For a potential president to state that he sees himself as a wartime candidate who will defend his party against other citizens is astonishing. There is not even a pretense here of "united states".”