Cannot Quote by Abdolkarim Soroush

If you elect a religious party into power, you no longer have a democracy.

— Maysoon Zayid

Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.

— E. B. White

Given the ambiguity of religious texts and teachings, the mixed historical record, and the empirical evidence, it would be foolhardy to assert that religious…

— Kenneth D. Wald

The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions… We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs…

— Barry Goldwater

Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.

— Barack Obama

Despotism may be able to do without religion, but democracy cannot.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

If you want to make the government take a religious side, then make the case, it should be Christian republic.

— Rachel Maddow

Religion cannot be the agenda of any government.

— Mamata Banerjee

If any party fights the election on the basis of religion, it will not succeed.

— Mehbooba Mufti

One of the features of a democracy is the disentanglement of the sacred from the secular because in religiously pluralistic countries, no one can…

— Michael Shermer

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

— Tony Campolo

Even if a government can be constitutional without being democratic, it cannot be democratic without being constitutional.

— Clinton Rossiter