Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

I said I would never wear my gold again because it would be insensitive and disrespectful to all the people who died and lost everything in Katrina.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

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‘.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

I serve God.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that – that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

I love diversity.

I think America has always been polarized.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

God always wants us to be growing.

Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

All religions have been made by men.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

My mom is very religious – Catholic – and from a young age they brought me to the church.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

I have a reputation for taking on governors a lot more powerful than me.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.