In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

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.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

Real Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

If you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.

That government is best which governs least.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

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

I don’t write policy for my government.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

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

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home – I think in those days we called them arguments – about who was right and who was wrong.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

I don’t think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

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

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

My Democratic friends just can’t accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president – it’s called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a ‚Hurt Feelings Report‘ and let’s move on.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

Don’t be misled by those who claim God doesn’t exist, because He does.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy – well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I’m President, I never will.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

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.

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

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

God to me is love.

I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

There is no gambling like politics.