Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It’s when you go backwards through the ‚begats‘ and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, ‚Hang on, that’s a big punishment for eating one lousy apple… There’s a human-rights issue.‘

I don’t follow politics much.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

We’re not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

Jesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don’t get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

There’s some jerks. There’s some big egos. There are a few that think they’re one of the Founding Fathers… in both parties.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination – the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

It was the Congress that imposed ‚Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,‘ it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

You and I, the people of God, have permission to come before the throne of Heaven at any time we will, and we are encouraged to come there with great boldness.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

God always has patience.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.