Quotes about Politics

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.

In politics and life, timing is everything.

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'

Louisiana's spicy, colorful politics have saddled our state with a reputation for tolerating lax ethical standards in government.

Fawning over Babylon's leaders divides the church. Nearly half of the American church votes one way as one half votes the other. If one's allegiance is to a party, if one thinks one's party is truly Christian, one has cut off one's sisters and brothers.

Instead of doing good as witnesses, we grabbed for power. Instead of witnessing to Jesus, we have become known for political allegiances, so much so that our politics are reshaping our witness into a corrupted witness.

All of this leads us to one central question for our own lives today: How much of our faith is tied to our own nation and its power?

I'd like to suggest that the Golden Rule is perhaps the most potent political weapon we Christians have today. And I don't say this because I'm Anabaptist but because empathy is at the bottom of the Golden Rule. If we as Christians with a faithful witness would set the example, not by way of reaction but by way of reasoned empathy, we might set the tone for more shalom in our world.

John does not adjudicate how to engage in politics. Instead, John instructs Christians how to discern the moral character of governments and politicians and policies and laws.

Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution.

It could be another election where the alignments between Republicans and Democrats are different than they were this time and who a foreign country prefers.