Quotes about Politics

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide people by income. East Germany was not an improvement over South Africa. Obama divides Americans against each other. This is wrong.

Thinking I'd be in politics just wasn't something I'd thought of as a younger woman. There just weren't a lot of role models there.

As a believer and a child of the King, to consider casting a vote for someone or for something that would go against what God would vote for ought to be out of the question. Knowing God's viewpoint on important issues—whether it is immigration, taxation, racial disparity, abortion, social justice, or even simply partisan politics—should be one of your primary concerns as you head into any voting season.

You know what's interesting about Washington It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

They misunderestimated me.

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Let me now… warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.

In politics as in philosophy, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.

Concerns about democracy's future are better directed elsewhere, John Paul argues, for if "there is no ultimate truth to guide and direct political activity, then ideas and convictions can easily be manipulated for reasons of power.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.