Quotes About Politics

Secularism is simply a commitment to keeping religion out of politics and public policy.

atheists are the most reviled minority in the United States. Polls indicate that being an atheist is a perfect impediment to running for high office in our country (while being black, Muslim, or homosexual is not).

secularism is simply a commitment to keeping religion out of politics and public policy. Your religion is your business, and my religion, or lack of one, is mine. A willingness to build a wall of separation between church and state is what defines secularism—but, as you point out, behind that wall one may be a full-blown religious fanatic, so long as one doesn't try to impose the fruits of one's fanaticism on others.

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Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.

Look what's happened to Barack Obama over the last two years or George Bush for eight. It's a blood sport. But at some point, I may feel the need to run for office again.

I had been unaware that baseball was a Republican sport.

Vitali [Klitschko] does want to fight me, but his promoter wants to be bigger than him. This is another situation of politics in the sport.

Sport has been called the last bastion of male domination. Unfortunately, there are others - Congress, for instance.

Politics has become a blood sport that goes beyond just the person whose name is on the ballot.

I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested!

Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.

Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.

The Russian leaders are keen judges of human psychology, and as such they are highly conscious that loss of temper and of self-control is never a source of strength in political affairs.

In relations with other nations, there is neither right nor wrong; there is only strength and weakness.

For a few political turncoats there is real excuse. One can hardly blame those whom one ministry have seen fit to throw overboard for having the strength to swim to the other side.

Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world's problems. He knows that the only way to argue with the communists is from a position of strength.

The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.

I believe with all my heart that one cannot be America's president without a belief in God, without the strength that your faith gives you.

Donald Trump does not stick to Republican orthodoxy, which, you know, and this is always supposed to have been his downfall. Maybe it's his strength.

The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.

In fact the communists gained strength in India when the people thought my party was moving to the right. And they were correct.