Quotes About Values

If giving money to a politician prejudiced my ability to think and write honestly, I wouldn't do it. Fortunately, it doesn't.

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.

But I don't feel that as a politician I'm hugely different. Obviously I have a different set of experiences that chime with experiences that many of my constituents have. I think I essentially still have the same set of values and the issues that are important to me don't seem to have changed hugely.

I cannot throw my core values into a dustbin as some do for the sake of power and position. What kind of a politician that would make me then?

I just think people are fed up with people who are career politicians who don't stand for anything.

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.

If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

Politics is not about money.

The lifespan of faith and culture is much more than the ones who play politics in its name.

I'm not in the business of politics.

When you go to the polls, ethics and morality should be part of the evaluation.

We will accept no corporate PAC money, and we're not going to be driven by the polls.

I always tell people, good coaches are a dime a dozen. Good coaches that are good people, good husbands, good fathers, that love their players and are passionate about doing things in a way that I believe is important, that pool gets real small.

My identity is in Christ, and I really hope that I show that with just my character, the way that I do things on the pool deck.

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.

I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.

My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.