From a BuzzFlash Interview (via Sideshow) I found this quote from Gary Hart to be memorable:

… the reason you can’t mix religion and politics is, religion is about absolutes, right and wrong, good and evil. Politics is about compromise. If you cannot compromise on issues that are not central to a person’s faith – and that’s about 99% of the issues our country faces – then the country doesn’t work. The government doesn’t work.

I think I will have to check out the essay, God And Caesar in America: An Essay on Religion and Politics, that spawned the interview.

Yeah, without compromise, this country doesn’t work.