Richard Land Quotations

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.

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

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

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

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

The problem is there is so much more to do.

We, as Baptists, are people of the Book,

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.

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.

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

It would not bar women from being pastors,

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.

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.

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.

that in the early 1990s prompted moderates to leave in droves. In 2000, former US President Jimmy Carter left, despite being a three-generation Southern Baptist, complaining that the convention had adopted policies that ''violate the basic premises of my Christian faith.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Social conservatives say who drives the bus.