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Timeline
22 Mar 1930 Pat Robertson born, Lexington VA.
1955 Juris doctor degree, Yale University Law School.
1959 Master of Divinity, New York Theological Seminary.
11 Jan 1960 Founds the Christian Broadcasting Network.
1 Oct 1961 Christian Broadcasting Network begins broadcasting.
Apr 1980 Pat Robertson declares at the "Washington for Jesus" rally: "We have enough votes to run the country. And when the people say, 'We've had enough,' we are going to take over."
May 1980 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "I guarantee you by the fall of 1982, that there is going to be a judgment on the world, and the ultimate judgment is going to come on the Soviet Union. They are going to be the ones to make military adventures... by the fall undoubtedly something like this will happen which will fulfill Ezekiel [38]."
30 Dec 1981 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "The Constitution of the United States, for instance, is a marvelous document for self-government by the Christian people. But the minute you turn the document into the hands of non-Christian people and atheistic people they can use it to destroy the very foundation of our society. And that's what's been happening."
30 Dec 1981 Pat Robertson tells The Washington Post: "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."
Dec 1984 In a speech, televangelist Pat Robertson declares: �What's coming next? ... I want you to imagine a society where the church members have taken dominion over the forces of the world ... no drug addiction ... pornographers no longer have any access to the public whatsoever ... the people of God inherit the earth ... You say, that's a description of the Millennium when Jesus comes back ... [but] these things can take place now in this time ... and they are going to because I am persuaded that we are standing on the brink of the greatest spiritual revival the world has ever known!�
Jan 1986 Pat Robertson tells Conservative Digest: �It�s amazing that the Constitution of the United States says nothing about the separation of church and state. That phrase does appear, however, in the Soviet Constitution, which says the state shall be separate from the church and the church from the school. People in the educational establishment, and in our judicial establishment, have attempted to impose the Soviet strictures on the United States and have done so successfully, even though they are not part of our Constitution.�
11 Apr 1986 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: �The First Amendment says Congress shall pass no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof -- nothing about a wall of separation, nothing about separation of church and state! Merely, Congress can�t set up a national religion. End of story.�
18 Aug 1986 Pat Robertson tells New York Magazine: "It is interesting, that termites don't build things, and the great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians, because Christians have the desire to build something. He is motivated by love of man and God, so he builds. The people who have come into (our) institutions (today) are primarily termites. They are into destroying institutions that have been built by Christians, whether it is universities, governments, our own traditions, that we have.... The termites are in charge now, and that is not the way it ought to be, and the time has arrived for a godly fumigation."
17 Sep 1986 Televangelist Pat Robertson announces his intention to run for President in 1988, if he can gather 3 million supporters over the next year.
21 Oct 1986 Republican Presidential candidate Pat Robertson files twin $35 million libel suits against Congressman Andrew Jacobs and Congressman Paul McCloskey Jr.
29 Sep 1987 In order to effectively campaign for President, Pat Robertson resigns from his religious ministry.
3 Nov 1987 Presidential candidate Pat Robertson claims that 25% of American autoworkers are drug users, which contributes to their decline in productivity.
7 Mar 1988 At Pat Robertson's request, a federal judge dismisses his $35 million libel suit against Indiana Congressman Paul McCloskey. The case is dismissed "with prejudice." Robertson is ordered to pay $28,000 of McCloskey's court costs, and is prohibited from suing McCloskey again over the Korea story.
16 Aug 1988 At the Republican party's national convention, Presidential candidate Pat Robertson concedes defeat and endorses George HW Bush.
1990 Founds International Family Entertainment, Inc.
20 Jun 1990 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "Many observers say that AIDS is the hammer and gun of the homosexual movement, an effective vehicle to propel the homosexual agenda throughout every phase of our society."
2 Oct 1990 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "The courts are merely a ruse, if you will, for humanist, atheistic educators to beat up on Christians."
14 Jan 1991 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "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."
9 Apr 1991 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson warns: "[Planned Parenthood] is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism -- everything that the Bible condemns."
1992 Among the America's 100 Cultural Elite, by Newsweek magazine.
17 Mar 1992 Pat Robertson's book The New World Order published. Happy St. Patrick's Day!
18 Mar 1992 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson opines on South Africa's political system: "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."
17 Sep 1992 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "It's one thing to say, 'We have rights to jobs... we have rights to be left alone in out little corner of the world to do our thing.' It's an entirely different thing to say, 'Well, we're not only going to go into the schools and we're going to take your children and your grandchildren and turn them into homosexuals.' Now that's wrong."
1993 In an interview with Molly Ivins, Pat Robertson declares: "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."
21 Jan 1993 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "Many of those people involved with Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals -- the two things seem to go together."
28 May 1993 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "I am absolutely persuaded one of the reasons so many lesbians are at the forefront of the pro-choice movement is because being a mother is the unique characteristic of womanhood, and these lesbians will never be mothers naturally, so they don't want anybody else to have that privilege either."
14 Sep 1993 Pat Robertson tells the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: "It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media, and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians."
27 Sep 1993 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "The public education movement has also been an anti-Christian movement... We can change education in America if you put Christian principles in and Christian pedagogy in. In three years, you would totally revolutionize education in America."
23 Dec 1993 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "God and morality, the Clinton administration wants out of the country."
18 Feb 1994 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "These socialists, and they're in there now, starting with the President and his associates ... they want to squeeze out religion because if people read the Bible, they can't be enslaved. You'll never have a socialist government where everybody's Christian."
18 Jan 1995 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "[Homosexuals] want to come into churches and disrupt church services and throw blood all around and try to give people AIDS and spit in the face of ministers."
22 Jan 1995 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "[Separation of church and state] was never in the Constitution. However much the liberals laugh at me for saying it, they know good and well it was never in the Constitution! Such language only appeared in the constitution of the communist Soviet Union."
23 Mar 1995 A voiceover during a segment on Pat Robertson's television show The 700 Club, declares Hinduism to be "demonic."
29 Mar 1995 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "We abhor violence against homosexuals. We would counsel strongly -- in relation to homosexuality -- that you can hold your religious beliefs without beating people up and being violent."
7 Oct 1995 Televangelist Pat Robertson occupies a seat near Pope John Paul II during a Mass held in New York. Robertson later hands the Pontiff a letter urging closer relations between Catholic and Protestant denominations.
7 Dec 1995 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "God in his great mercy has blessed America, and made this a haven for Christians and Jews alike. But we've gone away from our Christian heritage. And God has little obligation at the present time to spare America, because we are polluting the world with our television programs, our movies and so forth, our books. We are polluting the whole world. We've made the world drunk, if you will, with the wine of our fornication. The whole world has been affected by Hollywood."
1 Jan 1996 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson reveals that God warned him about abortion rulings: "The word I got is that if the judges appointed by man will not deal with those who take innocent human life, then the Lord is going to enter in and bring justice. And when that happens many of the innocent will suffer along with the guilty."
1997 International Family Entertainment, Inc. sold to Fox for $1.9B.
13 Sep 1997 Speaking at the (nonprofit, nonpartisan) Christian Coalition's "Road to Victory" luncheon, Pat Robertson declares: "We said we'd have conservative control of Congress by '96; we did it in '94. We've had a major presence in one of the major parties; we still haven't gotten the influence I think we ought to have inside the Republican Party; we're still not totally like we should be. And we also said by the year 2000 we'd have the presidency and that's to me the next goal. We can hold Congress, get in some more good people into the Congress and into the governors' mansions and then focus in on the White House."
13 Sep 1997 Speaking at the (nonprofit, nonpartisan) Christian Coalition's "Road to Victory" luncheon, Pat Robertson declares: "We just tell these guys, 'Look, we put you in power in 1994, and we want you to deliver. We're tired of temporizing. Don't give us all this stuff about you've got a different agenda. This is your agenda. This is what you're going to do this year. And we're going to hold your feet to the fire while you do it.'"
3 Dec 1997 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "[The National Organization for Women] is saying that in order to be a woman, you've got to be a lesbian."
6 Jun 1998 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson vows that God will not permit "Gay Day" at Walt Disney World: "I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don't think I'd be waving those flags in God's face if I were you, This is not a message of hate -- this is a message of redemption. But a condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor."
Apr 1999 Liberian dictator Charles Taylor and Pat Robertson sign a "Mineral Development Agreement between the Republic of Liberia and Freedom Gold Limited," permitting Robertson's company to search for gold in Liberia.
18 May 1999 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything. Homosexuals are riding high in the media. For example, in the Cayman Islands, which is a British colony or whatever they call it now -- it's an independent thing -- in order to establish full relationships with England, England is insisting that they recognize homosexuals and the Cayman Islands are saying: 'We're Christians and we'd rather not do it.' And in Scotland you can't believe how strong the homosexuals are. It's just simply unbelievable. And so as far as the vestiges of John Knox and some of these heroes, I don't think it exists any more. And what could happen? It could go right back to the darkness very easily."
9 Aug 1999 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "I know it sounds somewhat Machiavellian and evil, to think that you could send a squad in to take out somebody like Osama bin Laden, or to take out the head of North Korea, but isn't it better to do something like that, to take out Milosevic, to take out Saddam Hussein, rather than to spend billions of dollars on a war that harms innocent civilians and destroys the infrastructure of a country?"
6 Feb 2001 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "The worse thing in the world for somebody who is a person of color, black, African American, whatever term is in vogue these days to hold grudges and say well 100 years ago my ancestors were in slavery, and therefore I hate you. That doesn't fly. And to live in the past is the most numbing experience because what it does is sap your energy for the future. And, what everybody's got to do is to say before God I'm going to ask God to bring forgiveness into my life. And, I am just totally against these leaders who stir up the divisions and the hatred. You've seen it -- talking about all these offenses and things that happened. And, they're doing it for publicity. They're doing it to raise money. They're doing it to get a following so they'll be elected to some office, and so forth. That's wrong. To play on the hatred of people for your own personal gain is abhorrent, and there are many people who do that."
13 Sep 2001 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "We have allowed rampant secularism and occult, etc. to be broadcast on television. We have permitted somewhere in the neighborhood of 35 to 40 million unborn babies to be slaughtered in our society. We have a Court that has essentially stuck its finger in God's eye and said, 'We're going to legislate you out of the schools, we're going to take your Commandments from off the courthouse steps in various states, we're not going to let little children read the Commandments of God, we're not going to let the Bible be read -- no prayer in our schools.' We have insulted God at the highest levels of our government. And, then we say 'why does this happen?' Well, why its happening is that God Almighty is lifting his protection from us. And once that protection is gone, we all are vulnerable because we're a free society, and we're vulnerable. We lay naked before these terrorists who have infiltrated our country. There's probably tens of thousands of them in America right now. They've been raising money. They've been preaching their hate and overseas they've been spewing out venom against the United States for years. All over the Arab world, there is venom being poured out into people's ears and minds against America. And, the only thing that's going to sustain us is the power of the Almighty God."
1 Oct 2001 Televangelist Pat Robertson announces: "The Lord is getting ready to shake this nation. We have not yet seen His judgment on America. This thing that happened in New York was child's play compared to what's going to happen. It was a great tragedy. It tore at our hearts when we saw that suffering, but it was a wake-up call from God." Among other offenses inciting God's wrath, Pat cites "rampant Internet Pornography."
5 Dec 2001 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "We're legalizing Sodomy. We're now teaching witchcraft in the schools. We're legalizing sodomy. Adultery is thought of as no big deal. We haven't quite got to bestiality yet, but it's on the Internet. And, incest is more and more prevalent and the sacrifice of children through abortion is in the 30 to 40 million range. We're doing all the things that God said were so repugnant that the land itself would be repulsed and would vomit its inhabitants out. And, if there was ever a time that we need God's blessing, it's now. We don't need to bring in heathen, pagan practices to the United States of America."
17 Feb 2003 Surgeons remove faith healer Pat Robertson's cancerous prostate gland, inflicted upon the televangelist for reasons known only to God. For reasons known only to Robertson, he opted for humanistic surgery, rather than relying upon the power of prayer.
17 Jul 2003 Televangelist Pat Robertson tells CNN: "I prayed for the downfall of the Soviet Union. I thought that Communism, the tyranny of Communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened."
Oct 2003 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson suggests that a terrorist should nuke the offices of the U.S. State Department when he tells author Joel Mowbray: "I read your book. When you get through, you say, 'If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom, I think that's the answer,' and you say, 'We've got to blow that thing up.' I mean, is it as bad as you say?"
14 Oct 2003 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "Every society which has embraced homosexuality -- normalized it, legitimized it, et cetera, embraced it as part of their culture -- every one of those societies has gone down in flames. And if we want to destroy the United States of America, take it down, this is the best way to do it. So the homosexuals will have managed to win what's known as a pyrrhic victory -- they may win their temporary battle, but they'll lose the war 'cause they will destroy the society, and that's happening."
22 Mar 1930 Pat Robertson born, Lexington VA.
1955 Juris doctor degree, Yale University Law School.
1959 Master of Divinity, New York Theological Seminary.
11 Jan 1960 Founds the Christian Broadcasting Network.
1 Oct 1961 Christian Broadcasting Network begins broadcasting.
Apr 1980 Pat Robertson declares at the "Washington for Jesus" rally: "We have enough votes to run the country. And when the people say, 'We've had enough,' we are going to take over."
May 1980 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "I guarantee you by the fall of 1982, that there is going to be a judgment on the world, and the ultimate judgment is going to come on the Soviet Union. They are going to be the ones to make military adventures... by the fall undoubtedly something like this will happen which will fulfill Ezekiel [38]."
30 Dec 1981 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "The Constitution of the United States, for instance, is a marvelous document for self-government by the Christian people. But the minute you turn the document into the hands of non-Christian people and atheistic people they can use it to destroy the very foundation of our society. And that's what's been happening."
30 Dec 1981 Pat Robertson tells The Washington Post: "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."
Dec 1984 In a speech, televangelist Pat Robertson declares: �What's coming next? ... I want you to imagine a society where the church members have taken dominion over the forces of the world ... no drug addiction ... pornographers no longer have any access to the public whatsoever ... the people of God inherit the earth ... You say, that's a description of the Millennium when Jesus comes back ... [but] these things can take place now in this time ... and they are going to because I am persuaded that we are standing on the brink of the greatest spiritual revival the world has ever known!�
Jan 1986 Pat Robertson tells Conservative Digest: �It�s amazing that the Constitution of the United States says nothing about the separation of church and state. That phrase does appear, however, in the Soviet Constitution, which says the state shall be separate from the church and the church from the school. People in the educational establishment, and in our judicial establishment, have attempted to impose the Soviet strictures on the United States and have done so successfully, even though they are not part of our Constitution.�
11 Apr 1986 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: �The First Amendment says Congress shall pass no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof -- nothing about a wall of separation, nothing about separation of church and state! Merely, Congress can�t set up a national religion. End of story.�
18 Aug 1986 Pat Robertson tells New York Magazine: "It is interesting, that termites don't build things, and the great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians, because Christians have the desire to build something. He is motivated by love of man and God, so he builds. The people who have come into (our) institutions (today) are primarily termites. They are into destroying institutions that have been built by Christians, whether it is universities, governments, our own traditions, that we have.... The termites are in charge now, and that is not the way it ought to be, and the time has arrived for a godly fumigation."
17 Sep 1986 Televangelist Pat Robertson announces his intention to run for President in 1988, if he can gather 3 million supporters over the next year.
21 Oct 1986 Republican Presidential candidate Pat Robertson files twin $35 million libel suits against Congressman Andrew Jacobs and Congressman Paul McCloskey Jr.
29 Sep 1987 In order to effectively campaign for President, Pat Robertson resigns from his religious ministry.
3 Nov 1987 Presidential candidate Pat Robertson claims that 25% of American autoworkers are drug users, which contributes to their decline in productivity.
7 Mar 1988 At Pat Robertson's request, a federal judge dismisses his $35 million libel suit against Indiana Congressman Paul McCloskey. The case is dismissed "with prejudice." Robertson is ordered to pay $28,000 of McCloskey's court costs, and is prohibited from suing McCloskey again over the Korea story.
16 Aug 1988 At the Republican party's national convention, Presidential candidate Pat Robertson concedes defeat and endorses George HW Bush.
1990 Founds International Family Entertainment, Inc.
20 Jun 1990 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "Many observers say that AIDS is the hammer and gun of the homosexual movement, an effective vehicle to propel the homosexual agenda throughout every phase of our society."
2 Oct 1990 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "The courts are merely a ruse, if you will, for humanist, atheistic educators to beat up on Christians."
14 Jan 1991 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "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."
9 Apr 1991 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson warns: "[Planned Parenthood] is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism -- everything that the Bible condemns."
1992 Among the America's 100 Cultural Elite, by Newsweek magazine.
17 Mar 1992 Pat Robertson's book The New World Order published. Happy St. Patrick's Day!
18 Mar 1992 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson opines on South Africa's political system: "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."
17 Sep 1992 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "It's one thing to say, 'We have rights to jobs... we have rights to be left alone in out little corner of the world to do our thing.' It's an entirely different thing to say, 'Well, we're not only going to go into the schools and we're going to take your children and your grandchildren and turn them into homosexuals.' Now that's wrong."
1993 In an interview with Molly Ivins, Pat Robertson declares: "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."
21 Jan 1993 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "Many of those people involved with Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals -- the two things seem to go together."
28 May 1993 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "I am absolutely persuaded one of the reasons so many lesbians are at the forefront of the pro-choice movement is because being a mother is the unique characteristic of womanhood, and these lesbians will never be mothers naturally, so they don't want anybody else to have that privilege either."
14 Sep 1993 Pat Robertson tells the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: "It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media, and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians."
27 Sep 1993 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "The public education movement has also been an anti-Christian movement... We can change education in America if you put Christian principles in and Christian pedagogy in. In three years, you would totally revolutionize education in America."
23 Dec 1993 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "God and morality, the Clinton administration wants out of the country."
18 Feb 1994 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "These socialists, and they're in there now, starting with the President and his associates ... they want to squeeze out religion because if people read the Bible, they can't be enslaved. You'll never have a socialist government where everybody's Christian."
18 Jan 1995 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "[Homosexuals] want to come into churches and disrupt church services and throw blood all around and try to give people AIDS and spit in the face of ministers."
22 Jan 1995 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "[Separation of church and state] was never in the Constitution. However much the liberals laugh at me for saying it, they know good and well it was never in the Constitution! Such language only appeared in the constitution of the communist Soviet Union."
23 Mar 1995 A voiceover during a segment on Pat Robertson's television show The 700 Club, declares Hinduism to be "demonic."
29 Mar 1995 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "We abhor violence against homosexuals. We would counsel strongly -- in relation to homosexuality -- that you can hold your religious beliefs without beating people up and being violent."
7 Oct 1995 Televangelist Pat Robertson occupies a seat near Pope John Paul II during a Mass held in New York. Robertson later hands the Pontiff a letter urging closer relations between Catholic and Protestant denominations.
7 Dec 1995 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "God in his great mercy has blessed America, and made this a haven for Christians and Jews alike. But we've gone away from our Christian heritage. And God has little obligation at the present time to spare America, because we are polluting the world with our television programs, our movies and so forth, our books. We are polluting the whole world. We've made the world drunk, if you will, with the wine of our fornication. The whole world has been affected by Hollywood."
1 Jan 1996 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson reveals that God warned him about abortion rulings: "The word I got is that if the judges appointed by man will not deal with those who take innocent human life, then the Lord is going to enter in and bring justice. And when that happens many of the innocent will suffer along with the guilty."
1997 International Family Entertainment, Inc. sold to Fox for $1.9B.
13 Sep 1997 Speaking at the (nonprofit, nonpartisan) Christian Coalition's "Road to Victory" luncheon, Pat Robertson declares: "We said we'd have conservative control of Congress by '96; we did it in '94. We've had a major presence in one of the major parties; we still haven't gotten the influence I think we ought to have inside the Republican Party; we're still not totally like we should be. And we also said by the year 2000 we'd have the presidency and that's to me the next goal. We can hold Congress, get in some more good people into the Congress and into the governors' mansions and then focus in on the White House."
13 Sep 1997 Speaking at the (nonprofit, nonpartisan) Christian Coalition's "Road to Victory" luncheon, Pat Robertson declares: "We just tell these guys, 'Look, we put you in power in 1994, and we want you to deliver. We're tired of temporizing. Don't give us all this stuff about you've got a different agenda. This is your agenda. This is what you're going to do this year. And we're going to hold your feet to the fire while you do it.'"
3 Dec 1997 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "[The National Organization for Women] is saying that in order to be a woman, you've got to be a lesbian."
6 Jun 1998 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson vows that God will not permit "Gay Day" at Walt Disney World: "I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don't think I'd be waving those flags in God's face if I were you, This is not a message of hate -- this is a message of redemption. But a condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor."
Apr 1999 Liberian dictator Charles Taylor and Pat Robertson sign a "Mineral Development Agreement between the Republic of Liberia and Freedom Gold Limited," permitting Robertson's company to search for gold in Liberia.
18 May 1999 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything. Homosexuals are riding high in the media. For example, in the Cayman Islands, which is a British colony or whatever they call it now -- it's an independent thing -- in order to establish full relationships with England, England is insisting that they recognize homosexuals and the Cayman Islands are saying: 'We're Christians and we'd rather not do it.' And in Scotland you can't believe how strong the homosexuals are. It's just simply unbelievable. And so as far as the vestiges of John Knox and some of these heroes, I don't think it exists any more. And what could happen? It could go right back to the darkness very easily."
9 Aug 1999 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "I know it sounds somewhat Machiavellian and evil, to think that you could send a squad in to take out somebody like Osama bin Laden, or to take out the head of North Korea, but isn't it better to do something like that, to take out Milosevic, to take out Saddam Hussein, rather than to spend billions of dollars on a war that harms innocent civilians and destroys the infrastructure of a country?"
6 Feb 2001 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "The worse thing in the world for somebody who is a person of color, black, African American, whatever term is in vogue these days to hold grudges and say well 100 years ago my ancestors were in slavery, and therefore I hate you. That doesn't fly. And to live in the past is the most numbing experience because what it does is sap your energy for the future. And, what everybody's got to do is to say before God I'm going to ask God to bring forgiveness into my life. And, I am just totally against these leaders who stir up the divisions and the hatred. You've seen it -- talking about all these offenses and things that happened. And, they're doing it for publicity. They're doing it to raise money. They're doing it to get a following so they'll be elected to some office, and so forth. That's wrong. To play on the hatred of people for your own personal gain is abhorrent, and there are many people who do that."
13 Sep 2001 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "We have allowed rampant secularism and occult, etc. to be broadcast on television. We have permitted somewhere in the neighborhood of 35 to 40 million unborn babies to be slaughtered in our society. We have a Court that has essentially stuck its finger in God's eye and said, 'We're going to legislate you out of the schools, we're going to take your Commandments from off the courthouse steps in various states, we're not going to let little children read the Commandments of God, we're not going to let the Bible be read -- no prayer in our schools.' We have insulted God at the highest levels of our government. And, then we say 'why does this happen?' Well, why its happening is that God Almighty is lifting his protection from us. And once that protection is gone, we all are vulnerable because we're a free society, and we're vulnerable. We lay naked before these terrorists who have infiltrated our country. There's probably tens of thousands of them in America right now. They've been raising money. They've been preaching their hate and overseas they've been spewing out venom against the United States for years. All over the Arab world, there is venom being poured out into people's ears and minds against America. And, the only thing that's going to sustain us is the power of the Almighty God."
1 Oct 2001 Televangelist Pat Robertson announces: "The Lord is getting ready to shake this nation. We have not yet seen His judgment on America. This thing that happened in New York was child's play compared to what's going to happen. It was a great tragedy. It tore at our hearts when we saw that suffering, but it was a wake-up call from God." Among other offenses inciting God's wrath, Pat cites "rampant Internet Pornography."
5 Dec 2001 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "We're legalizing Sodomy. We're now teaching witchcraft in the schools. We're legalizing sodomy. Adultery is thought of as no big deal. We haven't quite got to bestiality yet, but it's on the Internet. And, incest is more and more prevalent and the sacrifice of children through abortion is in the 30 to 40 million range. We're doing all the things that God said were so repugnant that the land itself would be repulsed and would vomit its inhabitants out. And, if there was ever a time that we need God's blessing, it's now. We don't need to bring in heathen, pagan practices to the United States of America."
17 Feb 2003 Surgeons remove faith healer Pat Robertson's cancerous prostate gland, inflicted upon the televangelist for reasons known only to God. For reasons known only to Robertson, he opted for humanistic surgery, rather than relying upon the power of prayer.
17 Jul 2003 Televangelist Pat Robertson tells CNN: "I prayed for the downfall of the Soviet Union. I thought that Communism, the tyranny of Communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened."
Oct 2003 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson suggests that a terrorist should nuke the offices of the U.S. State Department when he tells author Joel Mowbray: "I read your book. When you get through, you say, 'If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom, I think that's the answer,' and you say, 'We've got to blow that thing up.' I mean, is it as bad as you say?"
14 Oct 2003 On his television show The 700 Club, Pat Robertson declares: "Every society which has embraced homosexuality -- normalized it, legitimized it, et cetera, embraced it as part of their culture -- every one of those societies has gone down in flames. And if we want to destroy the United States of America, take it down, this is the best way to do it. So the homosexuals will have managed to win what's known as a pyrrhic victory -- they may win their temporary battle, but they'll lose the war 'cause they will destroy the society, and that's happening."