Quotes about Politics

America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.

One of the challenges Christians confront is how the politics we helped create has made it difficult to sustain the material practices constitutive of an ecclesial culture to produce Christians.

I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason why is I don't think it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama's got plenty of critics - and I'm just not gonna be one.

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.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

Democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

that the failure of governments is due to the pressure of economic interest upon them rather than to the "limited capacities of human wisdom.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical Christianity. To refuse to critique the system or the status quo is to fully support it—which is a political act well disguised. Like Pilate, many Christians choose to wash their hands in front of the crowd and declare themselves innocent, saying with him, "It is your concern" (Matthew 27:25). Pilate maintains his purity and Jesus pays the price.

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical Christianity. To refuse to critique the system or the status quo is to fully support it—which is a political act well disguised.