Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

I think I’d be a better president because I was in combat.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

There’s backlash about everything I do.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

I don’t think I would run for president.

I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

To the man who reads ‚Scouting for Boys‘ superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

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

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

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

Faith never makes a confession.

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

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

There’s nothing like white trash at the White House.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

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

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‚array‘ as far as political purposes were concerned.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

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

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.