American politics Quote by Oliver Markus Malloy

George W. Bush is the first Catholic president of the United States.

— Rick Santorum

The fact that President-elect Kennedy would be the first Catholic president did not sit well with many Americans. There was a fear that, as…

— Clint Hill

It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a…

— Roger Ebert

Kennedy believed in religious liberty and the separation of church and state. He did not believe in the right of elected officials to impose…

— Jack Schlossberg

“A second key decision by Kennedy concerned his Catholicism, which led many Protestants, including Norman Vincent Peale, to question whether he ought to be…

— James T. Patterson

Really, an historic night last night. You may have heard, Barack Obama will be the first black president of the United States of America.…

— Jon Stewart

So, in Kennedy's case, he was a Catholic. And people thought after the Al Smith election and so forth that a Catholic couldn't win…

— Geoffrey Cowan

I think I would always tell school kids that, you know, they'd say, "When did you get interested in politics?" I said, "Just very…

— Mike Pence

“When Obama was elected president, a prisoner said “one black man in the White House doesn’t make up for one million black men in…

— Angela Y. Davis

“Barack Obama so spooked the bigoted whites of this country that we are now faced with a racist explicitness that we haven’t seen since…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Come on, Peter, we have to get ready." "I am sorry, Father, for what?" "An exorcism, my boy!" "Did the Vatican...?" "Oh please, the…

— Karen Greco