Barack Obama Quotes

Governor Pawlenty's commitment to faith and family is not a product of coaching by campaign consultants.

I think my mother was very spiritual.

The important things to me are your faith, your family and your friends. If you have that, you have everything.

Everybody was a democrat where we grew up. It was a blue-collar town and the democrats represented the working class and the unions. But very, very super-conservative Catholic, very proud immigrant community, very stoic.

Obama is the rare Democrat who talks easily about faith and values and who does so without upsetting those offended by the mixture of religion and politics.

I feel fortunate to have a huge family that is beyond race, creed, culture, and have a Father who shepherds us all. When I think about that, my mind is blown.

I was raised in a community of Christian orthodoxy that had traveled with my parents to Los Angeles when they moved there for my father's job.

I think it's important that members of the United States Senate spend time not just on Capitol Hill but making contact with ordinary people and engaging them in the political process.

I intend to make Scientology as accessible to as many people as I can.

I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.

I mean, the Ace of Spades example that Jonah Goldberg remembered here (and that made me remember it, too), is that Chris Matthews interview with [Barack] Obama, during the run-up to Obamacare. Not one question about it. And when you stop and think, there never is for the Democrat. The media never questions the substance of anything the Democrats do.

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

We had no religion at all, but we were Jews in New Hampshire, and my sister - who is now a rabbi - said it best: We were, like, the only Jews in Bedford, New Hampshire, as well as the only Democrats, so we just kind of associated those two things together. My dad raised us to believe that paying taxes is an honor.

So as far as leadership and patriotism goes, I think it's really important that those things have to take place. And I think he's the best Democratic candidate we've had since Bill Clinton. And that's coming from a Democrat.

Everyone is busy, but I believe it depends on what you prioritize. My husband and I teach Sunday School together at our church and are very involved.

I've got kids and that's important. It's funny, you think that there's an expiration date on them and there just isn't.

Nothing is more important to me than my family, my faith, and my friends.

Think through whom you are trying to reach. Tailor what you do and how you do it to appeal to those communities.

I still want to put together bigger and better programs to work with the community. I still think I could do better on that end.

Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.

We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities, when so many people are waiting for the Gospel!

You have to do that here in your country. You must come to know the poor. Maybe our people here have material things, everything, but I think that if we all look into our own homes, how difficult we find it sometimes to smile at each other, and that the smile is the beginning of love.

I think that we need to measure how we give dollars to libraries by need. And the communities that are poor, in my opinion, should get more because you have to do more outreach.

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.

Getting reelected is the most important job every senator thinks he has.