Quotes about Politics

In a remarkable book, The End of Southern Exceptionalism, Byron Shafer and Richard Johnston make the case that white southerners switched to the Republican Party not because of racism but because they identified the GOP with economic opportunity and upward mobility.

Soon Jews were also removed and excluded from journalism, farming, teaching, and the theater. By 1938, Jews could not practice investment banking or the professions of law and medicine. This combination of segregation and state-sponsored discrimination against Jews mirrors what the Democrats did to African Americans.

I felt a long way from the pre-me, the pawn-Christian who was a Republican because my family was Republican, not because I had prayed and asked God to enlighten me about issues concerning the entire world rather than just America.

Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day.

The future does not belong to those who believe in socialism. The future belongs to those who believe in freedom.

Let no reader think for a moment that this is going to be a political paper. I am no politician: I have no politics but those of the Bible. The only party I care for is the Lord's side: show me where that is, and it shall have my support. The only election I am very anxious about is the election of grace.

Fascism is socialism which has been clever enough to fool the vigilance of the church, as no other socialism has done.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

I'll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.