Richard Land Quotes (34 Quotes)

It's what I've been pushing, it's what a lot of us have been pushing,

President George H. W. Bush didn't know David Souter from Adam's cat until he was introduced to him by John Sununu. This president has known Harriet Miers for 15 years, has worked closely with her.

There's two or three of them that clearly choose to ignore that (rule) because they can make more money elsewhere.

If not for government of the U.S. raising these issues, it would not be on the radar screen of most of the countries of the world. I've never been prouder to be an American than since I've been on the commission on international religious freedom.

I think the president underestimated the level of goodwill and trust he should expect from conservatives.

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.

The American people are not sending their young men and women to Afghanistan for this definition of freedom. Mr. Rahman should be released immediately.

Social conservatives say who drives the bus.

I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the Supreme Court.

I have a lot more in common in my worldview with Pope John Paul II or conservative commentator Bill Bennett, both Roman Catholics, than I do with Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton or Al Gore, who are all Southern Baptists.

This president has kept no promise more faithfully than his promise in 2000 and again in 2004 that he would nominate only strict constructionist, original intent jurists to the Supreme Court, ... In the face of unprecedented obstructionism, led especially by former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle in the last term, this president has held fast to his promises and nominated scores of sterling and extremely competent judges.

As Southern Baptists, we believe that Romans 13 teaches the government is to punish those who break the law and reward those who obey the law.

If a geo-restricted cab has a passenger going to the airport and they pick up a passenger (there), I have no problem with that. But during conventions, there's been evenings over there we haven't had more than 14 taxicabs come over there (to the convention center). That's what really set me off about doing something.

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.

Adrian Rogers was perhaps the last half-century's premier example of an expository preacher who used his gifts to magnify the Lord Jesus Christ and his victory for humanity on the cross,

It was outrageous to ever have a court suggest that the RICO laws, which were meant to bust racketeers and the Mafia, should be used for pro-life protesters exercising their First Amendment right of freedom of speech. We can take comfort in the fact that this was a unanimous decision. Even the pro-choice justices couldn't stomach this horrendous abuse of the law against the pro-life movement.

I do not know Harriet Miers. I do know President Bush and his commitment to a federal judiciary that lives within its constitutional assignment and interprets the law and doesn't write it from the bench, ... If the president trusts Harriet Miers to fulfill his campaign promises to the American people, then I trust Harriet Miers until I am given compelling evidence to the contrary.

The problem is there is so much more to do.

He speaks for an ever-diminishing number of American evangelicals, and that process accelerates every time he makes a statement like this.

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.

I know how he feels about abortion. I've talked to him about it. I've seen the look in his eyes. I've seen the anguish in his face, the pain in his heart. This, for him, is not just a moral issue. It is a deep issue of conviction. And he wants to see this decision returned to the people of the United States.

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.

The safety program is vague. But at the same time, I think the commitment is there for the certificate holders (who own cab companies) to really improve the safety program for the drivers and themselves.

Each individual congregation calls its own pastor. They ordain their own pastors,

I will be shocked if the president doesn't nominate a strong, known conservative, and that will provoke a knock-down, drag-out, bare-knuckled brawl.

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

I would say that Pat Robertson is way out on his own, in a leaking life raft, on this one.

Just how many ways can you interpret the words of Jesus in John 145-6, 'I am the way and the truth and the life no one comes to the Father, but by me,' ... The worst this chaplain could be convicted of is ascribing to orthodox Christian historic faith, which is what I would think you would want from a Christian chaplain.

he says. ''A federal judge's law is the law, until it is overturned by a higher authority, which means appeals court or the Supreme Court.

Everyone who is concerned about the sexual victimization of children and women should applaud the enactment of this legislation. It significantly increases the ability of authorities to go after the pimps and the customers who exploit these young women and children sexually and in such horrific ways. The so-called End Demand aspects of this legislation are pioneering in many ways and hopefully will go a long way toward helping to end the terrible sexual exploitation going on in our nation.

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.

This is not a moral question. This is a prudential question of what workswhat policies are going to put more money in the hands of the government, so it can decide what to do with the money.

We are going to test the Gang of 14's commitment to moderation, ... 50-50 that they can hold it together.

For 25 years, I would have said that the pro-life issue is the most pressing threat to America morally, but pornography has overtaken it, ... More people's lives are being destroyed on a daily basis by addiction to pornography than through abortion.