Tzipi Livni Quotes

I think the people of America just need to listen more to the ministers and MKs from Jewish Home.

I don't think Israel's becoming more religious, I think its politics is becoming more religious. There's a difference.

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

The religious people in Saudi Arabia are very powerful and don't allow anyone to step on their toes.

The Dali Llama uses religion to intervene in politics.

Eventually an effective political ideology cannot be based on any certain religion. Religion can offer some contribution, but an entire political activism cannot be oriented in accordance with religion. Political history of this region has the example of religion-based politics attempted in Pakistan and it failed. Not only in Islam, people in other religions of many regions try to keep on politics based on religion. It's not right.

They are religious people and the problem with religious people in politics is that religious politics do not make good compromises.

This will be a different society if a Catholic is elected President

Scrutamini scripturas [Latin for “Let us look at the scriptures.”). These two words have undone the world.

When politicians spoke of the electorate in ideal or didactic terms they might talk about freemen, but when they spoke about mobilizing the electorate, it was in terms of Quakers, Presbyterians, Baptist, or German [Lutheran] church interest…. Religion became the main vehicle by which ethnicity gained political representation.

The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid does.

When it comes to matters of religion and state, Bayit Yehudi is more extreme than the ultra-Orthodox.

When I came to faith, I thought I would have to stop being an actor, because it's all about artifice and manipulation. But we're living in a world where God doesn't really have an influence, unless it's fundamentalists, so I'll always be an outsider because of my faith. And when you think about it, faith and acting are all about stories, so the two are not mutually exclusive.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.

Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action.

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

I am a secularist in the Gandhian sense of the word, not the Nehruvian one. Nehru thought religion was an antique superstition which stood in the way of rational modern politics. I side with Gandhi, who wanted religious figures out of politics but also was suspicious of purely rational politics.

As the head of a religious party, I am not in favor of civil marriage or the full recognition of non-Orthodox converts in Israel.

Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions

When people say to me, 'You hate America,' I don't hate America. I love America. I am just embarrassed that it has been taken over by people like evangelicals, by people who do not believe in science and rationality. It is the 21st century. And I will tell you, my friend. The future does not belong to the evangelicals. The future does not belong to religion.

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 whole big part of what is going on politically."

I think that the religious and the military right wings are just two sides of the same coin if somebody uses God and religion and somebody uses country and security.