Quotes about Politics

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute; where no Catholic prelate would tell the President -- should he be Catholic -- how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote; where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference, and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him, or the people who might elect him.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

Described Washington as a community of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

Envy, bleating 'I'm as good as you', is the hotbed of Fascism.

The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.

It's a new day for the Democrats when it comes to matters of faith, and the younger Evangelicals are aware of this and many of them are moving into the Democratic camp.

Let's not play games. I was suggesting - you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.

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