Bill Kristol Quotes

Secularism is the crucial difference between Turkey and the rest of the Muslim world.

Politicians don't really bring up religion in England.

As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion …. The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.

Turkey is a country where Islam and secularism coexist.

Church and state are, and must remain, separate.

Ideally, I'd like everybody to be secular.

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

I'm not a college graduate, but I don't know how George W.Bush could have truly believed that the flower of democracy was going to blossom in that part of the world, I mean Iraq - at least in part because the governments there are so tied to religion .

Everything in the Middle East are linked to each other.

… governments have always been reluctant to tie their hands with human rights considerations, and cultural and religious diversity guarantees that the secular global rights regime will always have detractors and foes.

People in the Middle East, people everywhere, want peace. But unfortunately too many fail to recognize that that lasting peace can only be found with pluralistic, secular government.

I have no problem understanding that women are interested in mascara and the Middle East.

I think for those of us who think that our morality is something that needs to be in touch with our religious faith personally, then it's really important to explain that no one party has a monopoly on faith.

The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.

BJP has never done politics on religion, and no one should do it. It is against the spirit of our Constitution.

I believe in secular politics.

One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.

This contest between the secular and religious visions of government is really the main choice to be made. It won't be decided in one election, but it is a basic choice between an open and progressive Iraq and one that is backward and continues to fall behind.

To the other nations of the world, religion is one among the many occupations of life. There is politics, there are the enjoyments of social life, there is all that wealth can buy or power can bring, there is all that the senses can enjoy; and among all these various occupations of life and all this searching after something which can give yet a little more whetting to the cloyed senses - among all these, there is perhaps a little bit of religion. But here, in India, religion is the one and the only occupation of life.

A nation without a religion - that is like a man without breath.

Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India.

This is one thing that's very interesting, how the people on the left always talk about separation of church and state. When you look at the theocracies all across the Middle East, where we look at constitutions that are based upon the Qur'an, I don't think you want to see that happening in the United States of America. So it is a theocratic political construct.