30 Quotes by Richard Land

The last thing that people of faith should ever want is government-sponsored religion. It's like getting hugged by a python -- it squeezes all the life out of you.

I remember that campaign. I was 14 years old, and I lived in Houston, Texas, and my pastor came back to our Baptist church and from the pulpit, he said: 'I have good news! President Kennedy told us that on public-policy issues, his church doesn't speak for him and he doesn't speak for his church. And that he's going to separate his Catholicism from his service if he's elected.' And people applauded all across the auditorium. They just thought it was a great thing.

If he doesn't change his mind and support this amendment he will have a virtually impossible task to win the Republican nomination.

He picked a person he's known for 15 years and I believe he picked her because he knows her that well and he knows that she will vote the way he would want her to vote.

I am both stunned and appalled that Pat Robertson would claim to know the mind of God concerning whether particular events... were the judgments of God.

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?

It only takes five people in black robes to determine such crucial issues for our country as abortion, pornography, same-sex 'marriage,' and religious liberties.

Despite our significant public-policy differences, I commend Jim Wallis for advocating religious belief as an invaluable resource in addressing the urgent moral and social crises of our time.

Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.