Quotes About Politics

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

I don't think Jeremy Corbyn's going to stay, he's going to go. He knows parliamentary party have no faith in him.

We must embrace the power of faith, but we must never confuse politics and piety. For me, may I say that it is against my religion to impose my religion.

Let's keep people with weird religious faiths out of government. Especially those who have a weird religious faith IN government.

I have no faith in political arithmetic.

This election result has increased people's faith in democracy.

Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man... , But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians - wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage.

I'm very, very serious about my Catholicism and Hillary Clinton views that as a real asset. And we've talked about our faith lives, as she asked me to be on the ticket with her.

Sherrod Brown and President Obama have lost the faith of Jewish Democrats.

I have come to the conclusion that while a candidate's faith matters, what's most important is how he or she applies that faith.

Many, many times I would shake my head in dismay at the goings-on in the House of Commons, but that never caused me to lose my fundamental faith in the values of our parliamentary institutions.

A person should not be elected because of his faith nor should he be rejected because of his faith.

It's a new day for the Democrats when it comes to matters of faith, and the younger Evangelicals are aware of this and many of them are moving into the Democratic camp.

Margot [Hentoff] dislikes Bill Clinton because he's totally untrustworthy, and you really ought to have some faith in whoever's going to be your president.

We must renew democracy itself. We have to fight cynicism and inertia and restore faith in the advancement of our country.

I don't know a politician who enjoys fundraising. The system is such that the American people have lost faith.

I think that today, faith drives so much of our politics, that I thought, "If you don't talk about it, you are missing a whole big part of what is going on politically."

Ok to appoint atheists or agnostics-no litmus test of faith.

Let's not play games. I was suggesting - you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.

My president is black, my senator is a lesbian and my congressman is gay. This is not your grandparents' America, and I'm ok with that.

We love in a corrupt world, where america is the freest country. That was a contradiction, America being free.

When Stone created an outfit called Citizens United Not Timid (CUNT) during the 2008 presidential campaign, Bossie's group sued him. Stone, maintaining it was a gag, settled the lawsuit.

Earlier that day, former president George W. Bush, who had remained largely silent during Trump's presidency, condemned domestic "extremism" and the "malign forces" in the country. "So much of our politics has become a naked appeal to anger, fear and resentment," he said in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, near where one of four hijacked planes had crashed into a field on September 11. He never mentioned Trump directly.

When the tide sank, all boats were lowered. Trump had proven that the majority of Washington Republicans who had initially opposed him were exactly as craven as he had said they were, as he bent them to his will because they saw personal opportunity or necessity for survival, even after the Capitol riot.