Faith Quote by Paul Kengor

Reagan didn't want to wear his faith on his sleeve in a political way. Reagan thought that was egregious, and he was first turned…

— Paul Kengor

When Ronald Reagan spoke a thing aloud, he believed it forever and for always. By the time he started running for president, in 1976,…

— Rachel Maddow

Back in the '50s and '60s, most politicians were concerned about not talking about faith, partly because there were consequences you had to deal…

— Barack Obama

Faith is not a political strategy and should not be a political strategy. If it is being used as a tool to garner votes,…

— John Edwards

“Which was why he hadn’t voted since the early ‘90s. Why anyone who placed faith in their elected representatives to “save the country” was…

— Stephen England

Evangelicals overwhelmingly voted for Ronald Reagan - not because he was the most religious candidate, but he possessed the quality evangelicals felt like was…

— Robert Jeffress

In George W. Bush's case, the public paid far too little attention to the role of religion in his thinking. Many voters failed to…

— Jacob Weisberg

Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as…

— Noam Chomsky

I think that today, faith drives so much of our politics, that I thought, "If you don't talk about it, you are missing a…

— Barack Obama

“My reading of American religious history is that religion always functions best from the margins of society and not in the councils of power.…

— Randall Balmer

For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's…

— Gary Bauer

There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in…

— Stephen L. Carter