Jonathan Hayward Quotes

The religious right is turning the Republican party into a revival tent.

The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism.

Tea Party adherents are actually more religion-driven and more anti-abortion than the party they are supposedly upending.

Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action.

I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican.

Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.

When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut.

I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing.

Every day I turn on my television set and I see Newt Gingrich on television, I rejoice.

Pat Buchanan would be here tonight except that he is off giving a speech to the Sons of the Spanish Inquisition.

The Dali Llama uses religion to intervene in politics.

Jerry Falwell is the most dangerous man in America

The Jewish Orthodox community is playing footsie with the alt-right.

I used to play a narcissistic-conservative pundit. Now, I'm just a narcissist.

Jesus was too smart to ever run for public office. That's what Jesus would do.

An interesting thing about the religious people who run Iran is that one of their problems with Ahmadinejad, who they thought would be one of their guys because he's so religious, is that he actually has some really nutty ideas about religion. He's too religious. He's too literal. I mean, there are plenty of people in Iran who like Ahmadinejad's religious beliefs, just as there are plenty of Christian fundamentalists in America who like George W. Bush's beliefs. But there are also plenty of people who are very uncomfortable with his overt religiosity.

We are a great, powerless country.

The main aim of conservative politicians is to get through to the next election without being noticed. Nothing is more embarrassing to them than a person who claims not only to share their beliefs but also to be inclined to put them into practice.

As an ideology - and certainly as a political identity - conservatism is less popular than the very principles and values it stands for.

We should not just talk about conservative principles, but we should actually advance them.

You're either Mormon or Southern Baptist in my family. They're incredibly conservative and I love my family.

I am not a post-liberal and I do not think that such a return to full 19th-century anticlericalism inevitable or even likely - which is one reason among many that I doubt the bargain many religious conservatives have made with Donald Trump.

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

I've spent more time on Hillary Clinton's Flickr page than any other human being on the planet.