Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

I am a Catholic.

People do not make wars; governments do.

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

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

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.

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, ‚Hey, I did my religious duty.‘ That’s fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you’re talking to God. Even if it’s in your thoughts.

If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

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

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

I don’t like politicians, and I don’t like politics. I definitely don’t want to be associated with any of them.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

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.

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.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

I’m a Christian – I really don’t believe in UFOs.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

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

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

The word ‚Christianity‘ is already a misunderstanding – in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever.

Finality is not the language of politics.

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

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

My mom is very religious – Catholic – and from a young age they brought me to the church.

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

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

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.

It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation.

The fundamental question I believe is, ‚Is political Islam in our best interest?‘ If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?

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?

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

‚Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.‘ Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

There might be some serious fun in politics.