All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

I love being in the United States Senate.

There’s pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don’t get to know everybody, I don’t get to go to their ballgame, I don’t get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn’t mean we have to wash each other’s feet every day, but we must help one another.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn’t anticipate.

God’s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

I love being a part of the country-music community.

Sexism is real in this country.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

I just want to lobby for God.

Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesn’t believe that, about other possibilities?

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.