Quotes About Beliefs

I don't agree with everything that any of our political leaders say or believe - that's going to happen sometimes.

I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.

I've found that people feel very free to say insulting things, not about me personally, but about the things I believe. It's sad, because I really could care less where people are coming from, politically, religiously.

I am political. But not politically active. I'm not my dad. I'll never write polemic, as he did.

When it was not very comfortable, politically, for me, I said things which lots of people didn't like, some of them may have liked. I said my beliefs, my truth, and my convictions, and that's how I am going to continue to do in the future.

I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the music.

I wasn't raised in a politically charged house.

I think, when you become a politician, if you talk about religion too much, you're pandering or something.

What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.

The question is not whether personal spiritual beliefs shape a politician's values and policies, but what spiritual beliefs mold those values and policies.

We realize there is no political party or politician who fully takes into consideration the issues the church is about. This is nothing new to us.

Making mistakes is part of life. The only things I would feel ashamed of would be if I had said things I hadn't believed in order to get on. Some politicians do do that.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.

I'm kosher except for times where I eat pork and shellfish.

There are those who are value-oriented and those who are success-oriented. However shouldn't an actor deliver an image to his audience through roles he chooses to portray, based on his beliefs in life?

In criticizing an ideology, one cannot be racist, hateful, or bigoted. These descriptors apply to positions held against people and not ideologies.

I would never want to deny my Mennonite background and culture; I'll always feel like and be identified as a Mennonite and therefore possess that little extra authority on our beliefs. I also see myself as a Canadian writer.

I grew up in Spokane, Washington, in a very Christian, conservative home.

I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian.

Self-professed conservatives comprise about 40% to 45% of the electorate.

I think that one of the errors that social conservatives made - particularly Christian social conservatives - was a belief that they needed to use the power of government to try to shore up the various things that they believe make up a life well-lived.

The Conservative Party has abandoned conservatives.

I can't control other people, what their beliefs are.