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The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.

Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

The initial attraction of a political convention was that often the outcome was not preordained. There was at least some element of surprise. But, now it's like tuning in to a movie where you already know the plot and the ending. It's just not that interesting.

Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice.

Churches should not be directly involved in politics.

First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.

If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're going to have to take what they get.

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

Politics itself is not sacred any more.

No convention on God's foot-stool can, or has a right to, run me and make anything but a Democrat out of me.