Quotes About Politics

Sanitizing ESPN of politics and opinion would make it a relic; sports fans have dozens of places online to go for scores and highlights.

I can personally feel the relief myself in my audiences when I bring up Obama because there was a lot of anti-Obama sentiment out there before the capture of bin Laden.

Is not the brand of 'double-dealer' stamped on the forehead of every democratic slaveholder? Are not fraud and hypocrisy the religion of the man who calls himself a democrat, and hold his fellow-man in bondage?

I think religion played a huge part in Bush's re-election.

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

The Church controlled so much in Ireland for so long. I'm not going to get into whether or not religion per se is a bad thing, but my point is the political aspect in Ireland was way out of kilter, and it wasn't right.

When you go after someone who has a deep ideological belief set that is contradictory with your own, it's conversion. Conversion is hard. Conversion is miraculous. We have entire religions built around the idea of conversion. Politics is not a religion. Politics is about persuasion.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.

We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.

We don't need this religious cosmopolitanism. It's no good.

I had to learn to navigate the political and religious currents in a state where Mormonism dominates despite not being Mormon.

You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.

I think for those of us who think that our morality is something that needs to be in touch with our religious faith personally, then it's really important to explain that no one party has a monopoly on faith.

Regrettably, the Obama administration has chosen to take a lackadaisical approach to religious freedom, and allowed IRFA to fade into the background.

At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom.

When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.

A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.

Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.

The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life.

I don't think Jerusalem should be controlled 100% by religious people of any denomination, sect, or religion - even my own.

Let me start by saying that I do not enjoy nor relish the partisan role of attack dog. I never found any fun in that. I don't think it's constructive. I don't intend to become that here in the Senate.

I came into parliament to do things, so I don't particularly relish being a rebel.