Quotes about Politics

I was taught in Bible college, religion and politics don't mix.

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party.

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject.

I do not know the difference between them, for the politics of the Yankees is a puzzle I cannot solve, study it as I may. But as far as seeing through a grindstone goes, I am afraid— Susan shook her head dubiously, that they are all tarred with the same brush.

Charlie Sloane says he's going to go into politics and be a member of Parliament, but Mrs. Lynde says he'll never succeed at that, because the Sloanes are all honest people, and it's only rascals that get on in politics nowadays.

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

Demagoguery is the ability to dress minor ideas with major words.

Once said that his political adversary "dived down deeper into the sea of knowledge and came up drier than any other man he knew.

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