Quotes about Politics

But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe that when you're elected to office, you become some kind of member of the aristocracy, and that anyone who challenges you is attacking you and is unpatriotic. This is foolishness.

When I hear things like 'unpatriotic,' I just chalk it up to a lot of political rhetoric.

We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.

The separation of church and state is a suburban, not an urban, issue.

Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.

When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.

Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.

Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?