Quotes about Politics

Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

All of my children are ideologically and politically in sync with me, they all have authentic Christian faith. It's something I'm very grateful for.

Well, for me the pro-life issue has been something I've been very passionate about since the '70s, and I have been very involved in the pro-life community since long before politics.

In church politics, you're surprised when people are bad, while in secular politics you're surprised when people are good.

Christ has not come with a blueprint for political arrangements; many kinds of political arrangements are compatible with the Christian faith, from monarchy to democracy. But in a pluralistic context, Christ's command "in everything do to others as you would have them do to you" (Matt. 7:12) entails that Christians grant to other religious communities the same religious and political freedoms that they claim for themselves.

we will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life; it will be quite safe — harmless, in fact — with church life carefully separated off from everything else in the world, whether politics, art, sex, economics, or whatever.

In fact, what we call "politics" and what we call "religion" (and for that matter what we call "culture," "philosophy," "theology," and lots of other things besides) were not experienced or thought of in the first century as separable entities. This was just as true, actually, for the Greeks and the Romans as it was for the Jews.