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“What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics requires a form of discourse that is reasonable and accessible to believer and non-believer alike. This religious restraint in politics is critical to the maintenance of liberal democracy.”

May Form Religious Accepting Democracy Critical Believer Cease Reasonable Restraint Discourse Modernity Maintenance Non Believer Liberal Democracy

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“We should - we will - welcome people of faith into the political process... It is essential that believers enter the arena. Your involvement in politics helps determine how well our democracy works. We have finally learned that government programs cannot solve our problems. Government can hand out money, but government cannot put hope in our hearts or a sense of purpose in our lives.”

“I just am a believer...that there are some things that happen for a reason...We may not be able to really discern it now...[but] given the perspective of time, I think we're going to be able to look back at this, and what seemed really bad at the time may turn out to be really good.”

Thinking Looks May Reason Happens Able Turns Politics Given Party Democracy Perspective Believer Ideology Tea Tea Party Happens For A Reason

Author:Eric Cantor

“As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to inquire whether some functional organization would not serve to formulate and manifest public opinion better than the existing methods. It is not irrelevant to the point that a score of passages could be cited in which Jefferson refers to the American Government as an experiment.”

Government Opinion Democracy Duty Organization Method Believer Experiments Score Manifest Passages Mechanism Irrelevant Public Opinion Suffrage American Government

Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

“I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process.”

Process Goal Democracy Essentials Ultimate Importance Believer Firm Ultimate Goal

Author:Dalai Lama

“We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy.”

America Democracy My Family Believer Patriot

Author:Susan Rice