The only way that we're going to feel secure in this country again and that we're going to feel good about ourselves is if we use these systems we've put into place to create positive change around the world. I really believe we can do that.

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive and as it turned out it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity.

I believe that by and large people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.

I believe that when you work on yourself you are attracted by different more positive beings.

I just believe in the goodwill of people the power of people to do something positive.

When I was a kid no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

I believe in karma and I believe if you put out positive vibes to everybody that's all you're going to get back.

Living in Washington you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.

On the other side I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.

Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe and everyone believes and it's not a big deal. But in Hollywood if you talk about politics - especially if you're a Republican - or spirituality it's just not something people want to hear about.

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

The sheep-people don't think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and it's the gospel truth and they don't have to go research it or anything and they believe everything the news tells them. People don't go and do their own investigations if it's relationships or politics or anything.

I'm not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics.

You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.

Whether one believes or not religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive it remains vital inspiring great good and sometimes great evil.