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

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

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

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

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.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

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

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

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.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

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.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

The Gospel has never changed.

God is everywhere.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

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.‘

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

It is our future on the line, and we must at least have a say in it.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

I serve God.

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

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

I don’t think President Trump is a racist.

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.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

Empire and liberty.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

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

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.