Top 100 Robertson Quotes
#1. Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.
John McCain
#2. 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.
Richard Land
#3. There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
B.W. Powe
#4. Because you're in a band, you go for other people in bands or in the music industry, but people don't grow up right when they're on tour all the time. They don't do the same things as someone who's been at home and gone to school and got a bunch of crappy jobs.
~Allison Robertson
Paul Miles
#5. All that had been done in the mid-twentieth century on "calculating machines" had been upset by Robertson and his positronic brain-paths. The miles of relays and photocells had given way to the spongy globe of plantinumiridium about the size of a human brain. She
Isaac Asimov
#6. You go after crude, rabble-rousing chancers like Ted Haggard, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, rather than sophisticated theologians like Tillich or Bonhoeffer who teach the sort of religion I believe in.
Richard Dawkins
#7. My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.
John Burnside
#8. I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and the truth is that morality and patriotism come in all shapes and sizes.
George Clooney
#9. Robertson called his ship the Titan; the White Star Line called its ship the Titanic. This is the story of her last night.
Walter Lord
#10. When you get to know some of the history of the game, Oscar Robertson is one of the names that pops up first.
LeBron James
#11. They got some people that are saying, hey, elect me as president. Hey, Washington couldn't handle Si Robertson. Trust me.
Si Robertson
#12. During my time in the entourages of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, I never saw either of them attack and punish those who disagree, as Dobson does on a regular basis.
Mel White
#13. The Republicans have a high Beady-Eyed Self-Righteous Scary Borderline Loon Quotient, as evidenced by Phyllis Schlafly, Pat Robertson, the entire state of Utah, etc.
Dave Barry
#14. John McCain, who once called Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson 'forces of evil', has now come out for teaching intelligent design. That is sad, when smart people have to pretend to be so dumb to get elected.
Bill Maher
#15. There are two trilogies I admire: Robertson Davies's 'The Deptford Trilogy' and Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.'
Amy Bloom
#16. When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut.
Ann Coulter
#17. This guy (Pat Robertson) obviously wants to be a prophet so bad. I wonder if he walks around at home dressed up in a bed sheet, talking Aramaic, maybe parting the waters in the bathtub occasionally, just to keep in practice?
Pat Condell
#18. When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.
Arlen Specter
#19. Rev. Pat Robertson says that if more states legalize gay marriage, God will destroy America. He did say that afterwards, gays will come in and do a beautiful renovation.
Conan O'Brien
#20. I think Pat Robertson is a terrific fellow.
Billy Graham
#21. The Bank [of Scotland] had tried to sell itself to a company run by TV evangelist Pat Robertson. That deal fell through, perhaps because it transpired that Mr Robertson believed that Scotland was 'a dark land' where 'homosexuals ruled the roost'.
Alistair Darling
#22. Pat Robertson said the feminist movement was just a bunch of lesbians who wanted to leave their husbands and kill their children. I quoted him in my book. It's a fantastic statement.
John Shelby Spong
#23. Pat Robertson has written in a book a few years ago that we should have a world government, but only when the Messiah arrives. He wrote, literally, any attempt to achieve world order before that time must be the work of the Devil. Well join me - I'm glad to sit here at the right hand of Satan.
Walter Cronkite
#24. On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis Hopper - all your choices should be so easy.
Sandra Bernhard
#25. This weekend the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, featured several speakers including Sarah Palin and Phil Robertson from 'Duck Dynasty.' It was a good weekend for conservatives - and a great weekend for wild animals.
Jimmy Fallon
#26. This is my wife, Marian Robertson. No matter what came before the day we joined ourselves each to the other, she is mine now and Iam hers. If anyone speaks ill of her or calls her whore, they attack me as well and Iwill answer for it.
Terri Brisbin
#27. You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there.
(Goldman attributes this quote to Cliff Robertson.)
William Goldman
#28. [Springsteen] sort of catarrh-mumbles his ditties in a disgruntled mushmouth like Robbie Robertson on Quaaludes with Dylan barfing down the back of his neck.
Lester Bangs
#29. Televangelist Pat Robertson also declared, on a platform that on defence and many other topics was well to the right of Attilla the Hun.
Thomas Ferguson
#30. Mr. Robertson Davies has also suggested in his Deptford Trilogy that the same great truism which applies to writing, painting, picking horses at the track, and telling lies in a sincerely believable way, also applies to magic: some people got the knack, and some people don't. Hilly didn't.
Stephen King
#31. I should start with an apology to Rudy Giuliani. I said every sentence Rudy utters has a noun, a verb, and 9/11 in it. I was wrong. He called me to tell me after Pat Robertson's endorsement, there's an Amen in every sentence he says too.
Joe Biden
#32. When you grow up in Bel Air and shop only in expensive boutiques on Rodeo and Robertson, you develop a kind of allergy to anything unpretty -clothes, cars ... even people ... you start thinking that if you hang around unattractive people, their homeliness can be contagious.
Nicole Richie
#33. Pat Robertson is an embarrassment to the church and a danger to American politics, .. It's time for Christian leaders of all stripes to call on Robertson not just to apologize but to retire.
Jim Wallis
#34. Just to be clear, if, like Pat Robertson, you somehow missed all the evidence, all the research, the depth and breadth of all the knowledge garnered about HIV and AIDS over the past three decades, you cannot get HIV if you share towels,
Anderson Cooper
#35. I remember the actor Dale Robertson said he quit acting when he got tired of having to hold his stomach in. I feel that way sometimes.
Ted Shackelford
#36. Si, the speed limit sign said 35. Your Goin' 55." -Sadie Robertson
"Oh, that's just a suggestion.
Si Robertson
#37. When I started out in the duck-call business, my college buddies would come in and say, 'Robertson, you have a college degree. What are you doing?' Then they drove away saying, 'What an idiot!' Thirty-five years later, they're saying, 'The sucker's a genius!'
Si Robertson
#38. televangelist Pat Robertson took to the world's airwaves and tried to suggest that the earthquake was God's vengeance for the Haitian Revolution, alleging that the slaves had sold their souls to Satan at Bwa Kayiman in return for the power to overthrow their masters.
Mambo Chita Tann
#39. Unfortunately, Governor Bush is a Pat Robertson Republican who will lose to Al Gore.
John McCain
#40. Jerry Falwell says, on Pat Robertson's program, that the reason we got attacked on 9/11 is that we were accommodating the ACLU and abortion and homosexuals and feminists in America, so God smacked us down.
John Shelby Spong
#41. The Robertson family and bad ideas go together like biscuits and jam.
Willie Robertson
#42. Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.
George Will
#43. Joseph Robertson wrote in an essay on punctuation in 1785, "The art of punctuation is of infinite consequence in writing; as it contributes to the perspicuity, and consequently to the beauty, of every composition.
Lynne Truss
#44. Also, I think that, you know, it's tribal behavior. I don't think that Pat Robertson, for instance, doubts that we evolved. He is simply representing a tribe.
Kurt Vonnegut
#45. Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions.
Martin Amis
#46. She's a monster." Ms. Robertson
Clarice, small laugh: "But she's out monster.
Kiersten White
#47. His failure hurt too badly for that. It was a bad equation. Best erase it and try a new one.
If adults could put aside their obsessions with such firmness, the world would undoubtedly be a better place. Robertson Davies does not say that in his Deptford Trilogy ... but he strongly hints at it.
Stephen King
#48. I love having Phil [Robertson] in the kitchen! Not only is he a great cook, but it means less work for me!
Kay Robertson
#49. Robertson Ay was sitting in the garden busily doing nothing.
P.L. Travers
#50. I spent hours flipping through the stations, watching Pat Robertson preach about society's evils and then ask people to call him with their credit card number.
Marilyn Manson
#51. I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended.
Bobby Jindal
#52. In this room I have picked which gun was unloaded out of ten options. And then they pulled the trigger on me. I have picked stocks that went on to skyrocket. I have picked which pencil I would shove into Ms. Robertson's ear until she kicked me out for thinking about it.
Kiersten White
#53. Pat Robertson would be harmless comedy, were he less typical of those who today hold power and influence in the United States.
Richard Dawkins
#54. Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
Ralph G. Neas
#55. To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed an intellectual treat.
James Meade
#56. Stoners just got a powerful new ally in the fight to legalize marijuana - conservative broadcaster Pat Robertson. He said it's time to 'you know, legalize it, tax it, and keep it away from Mel Gibson.'
Craig Ferguson
#57. I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.
Pat Robertson
#58. I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been passed down and passed down, and hopefully you take that, and then you take it, you know, the next distance, and then somebody else takes it the next distance.
Robbie Robertson
#59. The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.
Robertson Davies
#60. Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.
Pat Robertson
#61. The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country.
Robbie Robertson
#62. We're trying to infuse a little good into the American culture. Love God, love your neighbor, hunt ducks. Raise your kids, make them behave, love them. I don't see the down side to that.
Phil Robertson
#63. It ain't gun control we need; it's sin control.
Si Robertson
#64. 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
#65. The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
Frederick William Robertson
#66. It is the ultimate game-changer. If the resurrection is true, then everything has changed. As Jaroslav Pelikan once said, 'If Jesus Christ rose from the dead, nothing else matters. If Jesus Christ did not rise from the dead, nothing else matters.
David Robertson
#67. You can talk any redneck into a challenge. That's why so many rednecks die in strange ways.
Jase Robertson
#68. He decided that brains were made of all the parts of the body that the other organs had rejected.
Edward W. Robertson
#69. When you make a record, your own record, and you don't even recognize it yourself, it's hard to think if anybody else is going to recognize.
Robbie Robertson
#70. It is not in understanding a set of doctrines; not in outward comprehension of the "scheme of salvation," that rest and peace are to be found, but in taking up, in all lowliness and meekness, the yoke of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Frederick William Robertson
#71. I'm always nervous about singing ... always. It may be one of the only things I sweat about.
Ed Robertson
#72. I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.
Oscar Robertson
#73. There is more to marriage than four bare legs under a blanket.
Robertson Davies
#74. My grandmother's house was just a place of comfort. I mean, I remember going in there, and the kitchen always had pots cooking with the lids were always bump, bump, bump, bump, bubbling, you know?
Kay Robertson
#75. We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.
William Robertson Smith
#77. People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.
Oscar Robertson
#78. We are made of star material, and every atom of matter on Earth originated in the core of a star.
Margaret Robertson
#79. Accounting was the course that helped me more than anything.
Julian Robertson
#80. The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities.
Robertson Davies
#81. I think George Bush is going to win in a walk. I really believe I'm hearing from the Lord it's going to be like a blowout election in 2004.
Pat Robertson
#82. It was hard to love my wife and kids because I was all wrapped up in loving only myself. I did what I wanted, when I wanted, without any real concern for them.
Phil Robertson
#83. You don't go out and kick a mad dog. If you have a mad dog with rabies, you
take a gun and shoot him.
Pat Robertson
#84. 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
#86. I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting and turning, and sometimes shedding its skin, like the serpent that is [the doctors'] symbol.
Robertson Davies
#87. He [Piers] might have been a goofy flake, but he was, in the end, her goofy flake, and she loved him as much as she could.
Craig Robertson
#88. 'A Walk to Remember' was a huge movie for me. I thought Mandy Moore was the coolest thing that ever happened. And Shane West - man, did I have a crush on him.
Britt Robertson
#89. Petronius was surely right in saying Fear made the gods. In primitive times fear of the unknown was normal; gratitude to an unknown was impossible.
J.M. Robertson
#90. Never insult a mans beard, you either get thunder or lightning
Si Robertson
#91. I never talk about auditions. Even if I've got the role, I won't tell people until we're literally filming it.
Britt Robertson
#92. I represent Jesus on this earth and he represents me in heaven.
Jase Robertson
#93. Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
Pat Robertson
#94. No one needs a word processor if he has an efficient secretary.
Robertson Davies
#95. She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.
Robertson Davies
#96. You might get AIDS in Kenya, people have AIDS, you've got to be careful. I mean, the towels could have AIDS.
Pat Robertson
#98. Those who are not Christians go to a place of suffering and torment called hell.
Pat Robertson
#99. As you know, a head is a deal heavier than it looks. That is one reason you do not want to drop it anywhere near your feet.
Claire Robertson
#100. I'm as much of a homophobe as Jesus was. The people who are participating in homosexual behavior, they need to know that I love them.
Phil Robertson
