I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

How can we help President Obama?

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

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

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don’t know if it’s ever not somewhere.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

I supported Donald Trump.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant.

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

Politics is applesauce.

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

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

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

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

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

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters – and the church does not speak for me.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

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

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.