I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Finality is not the language of politics.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

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.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

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

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

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

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

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.

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

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

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

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

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

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

I don’t follow politics much.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

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.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country’s energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

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

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

People forget… that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that’s what happened.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that’s just not what the founders intended.

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

I’m not a politician. And I don’t want to be.

Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

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

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.