Wilfrid Laurier Quotes

Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

When politicians spoke of the electorate in ideal or didactic terms they might talk about freemen, but when they spoke about mobilizing the electorate, it was in terms of Quakers, Presbyterians, Baptist, or German [Lutheran] church interest…. Religion became the main vehicle by which ethnicity gained political representation.

I have chosen to seek election to the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors and not reelection to Congress.

I still don't know what Episcopalian means.

In the past, I've been reluctant to share any bits of truth about myself or to really let people in on my reality. So I have said some things to throw people off the scent of what's really going on in my life. So I have sort of aided the media in printing these misconceptions, which I regret.

I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.

Every single interview I have ever done on TV or in print says I'm a Muslim.

Political parties exist to get bums on seats.

A lot of people have tried to put labels on me, but right now I'm focused on being Kristi Noem and getting my message out to South Dakotans.

It is always tough to win every booth right across the electorate because there are different issues in different parts of the electorate.

Whether you like it or not, when you claim to be a Christian, the world takes note.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

Jewish voters are not one homogenous block.

Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.

When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.

I tell people that I'm a Christian, but I don't think it's giving an insight into who I am or what I'm about.

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.

Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

I'm about as Baptist as you get in Hollywood.

If you're a politician and all you care about is staying in office, you're worried about a small group of voters in your district who vote in the primary. If you're a corporation, you need to be much more in synch with public opinion, because you're appealing to people across the spectrum. Ironically, a lot of corporations have to be far more democratic than democratically elected officials.

Islam proved imperfect national cement, as many different varieties of Islam competed for the allegiance of Pakistanis.

George W. Bush, the man, is a person of profound faith and deep compassion for those who suffer. But President George W. Bush is a politician and is ultimately no different from any other politician, content to use religion for electoral gain more than for good works.

The Republican Party has become the party of one branch of one religion.