Pat Robertson

Pat Robertson is an American evangelist, spiritual leader and political leader, also owner and presenter of the TV show The 700 Club. He is known for many highly controversial statements, frequently made on this program.

Controversial Quotes

You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be nice to them. -- Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, January 14, 1991

The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians. -- Pat Robertson, fund-raising letter, 1992

God's pattern is for men to be the leaders, both in the church and in the family... "Women should listen and learn quietly and submissively. I do not let women teach men or have authority over them." -- Pat Robertson, reciting a passage from I Timothy in his book, Bring It On, quoted from Nicholas D Kristof, "Peter, Paul, Mary ... and God" (The New York Times: February 28, 2004)

I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife, and that's the way it is, period. -- Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, January 8, 1992

Many of those people involved with Adolph Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals -- the two things seem to go together. -- Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, January 21, 1993.

I think we ought to close Halloween down. Do you want your children to dress up as witches? The Druids used to dress up like this when they were doing human sacrifice... [Your children] are acting out Satanic rituals and participating in it, and don't even realize it. -- Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, October 29, 1982

I think "one man, one vote," just unrestricted democracy, would not be wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for the minority which the white people represent now, a minority, and they need and have a right to demand a protection of their rights. -- Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, March 18, 1992

Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history. -- Pat Robertson, interview with Molly Ivins, 1993.

"I am bound by the laws of the United States and all 50 states...I am not bound by any case or any court to which I myself am not a party...I don't think the Congress of the United States is subservient to the courts...They can ignore a Supreme Court ruling if they so choose." -- Pat Robertson, Washington Post, June 27,1986)

"How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?" -- Pat Robertson, The New World Order, p.227