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.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Politics is applesauce.

It sure is hell to be president.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

Religion is just mind control.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

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

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it’s because I’m Smart… But that is a lie: The real reason is because I’m an incurable Gambling addict.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy’s deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or ’79.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.

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

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

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

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.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

I’ve rarely kept my distance from kind of – I don’t know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, ‚Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.‘

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

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

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

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

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

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.