Kate Clinton Quotes

Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the 'Hindustan Times.'

I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don't talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble.

There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.

Even as a little kid, I was fascinated by newspapers and magazines. They were my TV. I'd be the first one up to grab the morning paper, mainly to look at the sports pictures, the war pictures.

Turkey is a country where Islam and secularism coexist.

I wanted to be a journalist. I used to write articles at university about politics.

I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports.

Meet the Press is not just another news show but is history in the making.

We in the United States are pluralistic respecting ultimate beliefs. Profound values exist apart from a devotion to a god.

News is the first rough draft of history.

[Journalists are] more attentive to the minute hand of history than to the hour hand.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbor. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Therefore it is right that also the Jews, who are in all the world under us, shall maintain their ancestral customs without hindrance and to them I now also command to use this my kindness rather reasonably and not to despise the religious rites of the other nations, but to observe their own laws

Father Coughlin has the right to express his views on current events, but he is not authorized to speak for the Catholic Church, nor does he represent the doctrine or sentiment of the Church.

With the Evangelical Right, compromise is not possible on the issues of conflict. In former times of clashes with courts compromise has taken place.

Societies, which were separated earlier by distances and borders and therefore predominantly homogeneous, now come in touch easily and become multicultural. This process, however, has been accompanied by attempts to establish the dominion of the rich elite over the rest of the people and of some cultures and world views over others, which is especially intolerable in the religious field

In this Day the secrets of the earth are laid bare before the eyes of men. The pages of swiftly-appearing newspapers are indeed the mirror of the world. They reflect the deeds and the pursuits of diverse peoples and kindreds. They both reflect them and make them known. They are a mirror endowed with hearing, sight and speech. This is an amazing and potent phenomenon. However, it behooveth the writers thereof to be purged from the promptings of evil passions and desires and to be attired with the raiment of justice and equity. They should enquire into situations as much as possible and ascertain the facts, then set them down in writing.

If you have ideology, you are less tolerant of the variant point of view.

I like the pluralism of modernity; it doesn't threaten me or my faith. And if one's faith is dependent on being reinforced in every aspect of other people's lives, then it is a rather insecure faith, don't you think?

There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.

The religious right needs to adapt to the reality of modern pluralism.

Religion is, too often, politics that you’re not supposed to talk about.