Quotes By Pat Robertson

But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.

Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.

When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grass roots support for somebody.

Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.

Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'

If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.

Homosexuals are riding high in the media.

We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.

The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.

I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.

I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.

I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.

I'm evangelical.

The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.

I also pray for favor and His anointing on my life and ministry that I might have spiritual blessing when I minister to people. They're my principal prayers; I don't have a prayer list that I go down.

You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.

There's no question that jihad historically means war.

I'm a religious broadcaster.

What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll have tax reform passed, that he'll have conservative judges on the courts.

Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us.

If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.

In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.

I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.

The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.

You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.

But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.

People who hate God... take it out on innocent people.

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.