Top 120 Pat Robertson Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.”

— Pat Robertson

52. “The best way to know God’s will is to be familiar with the Bible.”

— Pat Robertson

53. “I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.”

— Pat Robertson

54. “My father was a lawyer.”

— Pat Robertson

55. “I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it’s not so much divine retribution as it’s built into the law of nature.”

— Pat Robertson

56. “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.”

— Pat Robertson

57. “I have friends who are Roman Catholics. I have friends who are Lutherans.”

— Pat Robertson

58. “But if there’s an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we’ve made a terrible mistake.”

— Pat Robertson

59. “Homosexuals are like Judas: They look good in a robe, and their kisses are legendary.”

— Pat Robertson

60. “The courts are merely a ruse, if you will, for humanist, atheistic educators to beat up on Christians.”

— Pat Robertson

61. “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.”

— Pat Robertson

62. “Whenever the civil government forbids the practice of things that God has commanded us to do, or tells us to do things He has commanded us not to do, then we are on solid ground in disobeying the government and rebelling against it.”

— Pat Robertson

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

— Pat Robertson

64. “Lord, give us righteous judges who will not try to legislate and dominate this society. Take control, Lord! We ask for additional vacancies on the court.”

— Pat Robertson

65. “The average prison term for a convicted murderer in America is 6.5 years. The average tenure for a member of Congress is 13 years. We’ve got it backwards. We are giving early release to the wrong criminal class.”

— Pat Robertson

66. “In the eyes of the Associated Press, American Christianity, which springs from the Protestant Reformation, is fundamentalist. And Christian Fundamentalists, radical Muslims, Hindu extremists, and fanatical Zionists are all the same – bloodthirsty lunatics.”

— Pat Robertson

67. “We don’t need a “New Covenant.” We need a new Congress.”

— Pat Robertson

68. “If you go all the way back to the days just following creation, men lived nine hundred years or more.”

— Pat Robertson

69. “God will judge people on the basis of what they did in light of what they knew.”

— Pat Robertson

70. “We will see the presence of angels and we will see an intensification of miracles around the world.”

— Pat Robertson

71. “I have a relatively good track record.”

— Pat Robertson

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

— Pat Robertson

73. “There are thirty to forty thousand left-wing professors in the United States who are racists, murderers, sexual deviants and supporters of Al-Qaeda.”

— Pat Robertson

74. “Pope John Paul II stands like a rock against all opposition in his clear enunciation of the foundational principles of the Christian faith.”

— Pat Robertson

75. “They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in the Constitution. It’s a lie of the left, and we’re not going to take it anymore.”

— Pat Robertson

76. “Haiti is in desperate poverty.”

— Pat Robertson

77. “The potential savings in the national budgets from the elimination of police, criminal courts, standing armies, pollution control agencies, drug enforcement, and many poverty programs is almost beyond calculation.”

— Pat Robertson

78. “The time will come when God has assembled a body of people who freely love Him, which will prove beyond any doubt that love is the most powerful force in the universe. With the triumph of love complete, God will then deal with Satan.”

— Pat Robertson

79. “Becoming active is the key remedy for depression.”

— Pat Robertson

80. “Of course there are peace-loving Muslims.”

— Pat Robertson

81. “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.”

— Pat Robertson

82. “And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.”

— Pat Robertson

83. “The Constitution was made for ordinary people.”

— Pat Robertson

84. “Abortion’s a private decision. But I just think it shouldn’t be federalized.”

— Pat Robertson

85. “There’s an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they’ve taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.”

— Pat Robertson

86. “In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers.”

— Pat Robertson

87. “I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don’t have to be nice to them.”

— Pat Robertson

88. “Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?”

— Pat Robertson

89. “You can imagine, if somebody’s approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.”

— Pat Robertson

90. “We don’t want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.”

— Pat Robertson

91. “It’s just impossible to ignore the activists in your party. These are the people who stuff the envelopes, and walk the precincts, and make the telephone calls, and do all the so-called grunt work that brings about a successful campaign.”

— Pat Robertson

92. “Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it’s not a religion. It’s a political system. It’s a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.”

— Pat Robertson

93. “The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.”

— Pat Robertson

94. “I’m a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don’t understand why in America it’s such a big deal that we won’t read the Koran and we won’t look at history.”

— Pat Robertson

95. “The quickest way to recognize a cult is its treatment of Jesus.”

— Pat Robertson

96. “To say that it all came about 6,000 years ago is just nonsense, and I think it’s time we come off of that stuff and say this isn’t possible.”

— Pat Robertson

97. “I mean the terrorists are – are like a pimple, like a boil. They’ll go away.”

— Pat Robertson

98. “I’ve been to Israel many times – I’ve lost count of how many times.”

— Pat Robertson

99. “The evolutionists worship atheism. I mean, that’s their religion.”

— Pat Robertson

100. “I’ve managed stations.”

— Pat Robertson