Quotes About Politics

Look at that face. Would anybody vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president? I mean, she's a woman, and I'm not supposed to say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?" (Referring to Carly Fiorina.)46

their conclusion that politics was the way to stay relevant is today recognized as a mistake, a leading cause of both a decline in membership and, ironically, in loss of relevance.

To date, Donald Trump has been accused of rape (including by his first wife, Ivana, who later dropped the charges), sexual assault, and sexual harassment by more than two dozen women.

While every president lies, not every president is a pathological liar. Donald Trump is a pathological liar.

The problem with making a deal with Trump wasn't that evangelicals shouldn't engage in politics. The problem was who they made a deal with, and the way in which they justified that deal.

But we dare not adopt our political philosophy uncritically from some non-Christian source. It must emerge from our normative biblical framework and our painstaking, extensive socioeconomic and political analysis.

After a long and lingering illness, evangelicalism died on November 8, 2016. On that day, 81 percent of white American evangelicals who for decades claimed to be concerned about "family values" registered their votes for a twice-divorced, thrice-married, self-confessed sexual predator whose understanding of the faith is so truncated that he can't even fake religious literacy.

White evangelicals will be known as the people who defended the guy who defended the neo-Nazis.

Sadly, the lack humility and expansive presence of pride in the words and deeds of Donald Trump make him unqualified to be president of the United States of America. He should not be given four more years to hold the highest political office in our land. Christians who ignore this not only undermine the present and future good of the nation, but also their witness to the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Christians must be extremely vigilant against the ongoing temptations of idolatrous nationalism. Christians in the United States are especially prone to embrace this evil, but the temptation lurks in every nation.

Does not a one-sided focus on the issues that happen to be favored by either the Left or the Right suggest that one's political agenda is shaped more by secular ideology than careful biblical, theological reflection?

Russell Moore, head of the Southern Baptist's official public policy organization (the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission) said in The New York Times (September 17, 2015) that "to back Mr. Trump, these voters must repudiate everything they believe.

I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets

The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away

I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

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We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future.

People don't start wars, governments do.