I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

I’m highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don’t feel in tune with British politics.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I’ve been around. He’s fresh, he’s new, he’s insightful.

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you’re the mayor. The bad news is, now you’re the mayor.

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

I am not a crook.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

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

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

I don’t think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

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.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‚the rich‘ to pay ‚their fair share‘ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

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

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.