Quotes About Politics

Blaming public Christians for being 'too political' is like blaming Noah's ark for being 'too wet

Theocracy is not, however, to be confused with "theocracy" or any other form of government contained within scare quotes, to which I am unalterably opposed.

But believing in the separation of church and state (as we do) does not mean that we believe in the separation of righteousness and state. We do not believe in the separation of morality and state, or the separation of God and state. To believe in the separation of God and state is tantamount to desiring a godless state. And to desire that is to declare war on all humanity.

So here is the foundational principle: Jesus is Lord and Caesar is not. Everything else in all political economy is a footnote to that profound and glorious reality. And we don't need to pray in order to make that true. It was true before any of us were born. But we should pray that God gives us the vision to see and believe that. Why should we believe that? Well, we are called believers, after all.

Jesus came into the world to save us from our sins, and our political sins are not exempt from this salvation. Why would our political sins (which frequently have been among our foulest sins) be excluded? Jesus

Scripture focuses on the political rulers, and this is because it is where the fundamental challenge was mounted.

We are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics, we will have equality and in social and economic rights, we will have inequality. We must remove this contradiction or else who suffer from this inequality will blow up the structure.

Growing up in Eastern Europe you learn very youg that politics is not an abstract concept, but a powerful force influencing people's everyday lives.

Corruption, my boy, makes the world go round.

he took political sketch-writing to a new level, invented sports commentary as we know it, and created the essay-form as practised by Clive James, Gore Vidal, and Michael Foot.

In the process, what must be spoken meets what cannot be said. Each word is a catalyst, requiring the writer to break out forcefully from another story, from the primitive camp where history, society, and politics converge, to touch upon that 'what' and that 'who.' At that touch, one finds the unlimited boundaries of man, concealed by words.

I'm conscious of race whenever I'm writing, just as I'm conscious of class, religion, human psychology, politics — everything that makes up the human experience. I don't think I can do a good job if I'm not paying attention to what's meaningful to people, and in American culture, there isn't anything that informs human interaction more than the idea of race.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

[Hamas] thought that if you go to elections you become a democrat for the rest of your life. They think that democracy is limited to one day in four years.

Life is getting better, but that won't stop a war if politicians and business people decide it's to their advantage to have one.

Michelle Obama was asked when life begins. According to her it's when she and Barack take over the White House.