Anna's Political Quotes

Quotes from Donald Wildmon (American Family Association)

"It's not only a cultural civil war, it's a fight over the very existence of society as we've known it." (Memphis, TN Commercial-Appeal, 8/5/90)

"What we are up against is not dirty words and dirty pictures. It is a philosophy of life which seeks to remove the influence of Christians and Christianity from our society." (New York Times, 9/2/90)

On President Bill Clinton and gays: "He [Bill Clinton] made a covenant with the homosexuals -- with the radical homosexuals. He has catered to them. He has solicited their support. He has said to them, 'if you give me your support, if you give me the vote, if you give me the money, I will give you what you want. I will put -- from the highest office in this country -- I will put the stamp of approval on your actions.'" (National Affairs Briefing, 8/92)

"Christianity and politics not only do mix, but for democracy as we have known it to survive, they must mix." (Miami Herald, 11/16/93)

Quotes from Pat Robertson (Christian Coalition)

"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians." (Pat Robertson direct mail, Summer 1992)

"Communism was the brainchild of German-Jewish intellectuals." (The New World Order, 1991, p. 17)

"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." (The 700 Club, Jan. 14, 1991)

"The Constitution for the United States, for instance, is a marvelous document for self-government by Christian people. But the minute you turn the document into the hands of non-Christian and atheistic people they can use it to destroy the very foundation of our society." (The 700 Club, Dec. 30, 1981)

"The courts are merely a ruse, if you will, for humanist, atheistic educators to beat up on Christians." (The 700 Club, Oct. 2, 1990)

"We want...as soon as possible to see a majority of the Republican Party in the hands of pro-family Christians by 1996." (Denver Post, 10/26/92)

"I believe that during the next couple of years there will be a fierce struggle between the militant leftists, secular humanists, and atheists who have dominated the power centers of American culture for the past 50 years and the Evangelical Christians, pro-family Roman Catholics, and their conservative allies. The radical left will lose its old, and by the end of this decade control of the major institutions of society will be firmly in the hands of those who share a pro-family, religious, traditional value perspective." (Pat Robertson's Perspective, July - August/1991)

On South Africa: "Again 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 . . . ." (700 Club, 3/18/92)

"There is no such thing as separation of church and state in the Constitution. It is a lie of the Left and we are not going to take it anymore." (Pat Robertson, November 1993 during an address to the American Center for Law and Justice)

When lawlessness is abroad in the land, the same thing will happen here that happened in Nazi Germany. Many of those people involved with Adolph Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals--the two things seem to go together." -Pat Robertson, ("700 Club", 1/21/93)

Quotes from Ralph Reed (Christian Coalition)

On the Coalition's election plan in San Diego, CA: "It's like guerilla warfare. If you reveal your location, all it does is allow your opponent to improve his artillery bearings. It's better to move quietly, with stealth, under cover of night. You've got two choices: You can wear cammies and shimmy along on your belly, or you can put on a red coat and stand up for everyone to see. It comes down to whether you want to be the British army in the Revolutionary War or the Viet Cong. History tells us which tactic was more effective." (Los Angeles Times, 3/22/92)

On election strategy: I want to be invisible. I do guerilla warfare. I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag." (Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, 1/9/91)

"What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time...I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians..." (Religious News Service, 5/1/1990)

"We tried to charge Washington when we should have been focusing on the states. The real battles of concern to Christians are in neighborhoods, school boards, city councils and state legislatures." (Washington Post, 3/14/90)

Quotes from Robert Simonds (Citizens for Excellence in Education)

"As the church watches from the sidelines, the ungodly elect atheists and homosexuals to school boards and legislatures to enact policies and laws that destroy our Christian children and discriminate against Christian families." (CEE President's Report, 3/91)

On multiculturalism, values clarification and self-esteem: "The Los Angeles riots, showing sickening disregard for the life and property of neighbors, were spawned right in our public school classrooms. We have been teaching multiculturalism instead of Americanism, for ten years now, and indoctrinating our children with values clarification and 'self-esteem.'" (CEE President's Report, 6/92)

"There are 15,700 school districts in America. When we get an active Christian parent's committee in operation in all districts, we can take complete control of all local school boards. This would allow us to determine all local policy: select good textbooks, good curriculum programs, superintendents, and principals. Our time has come!" (CEE direct mail)

"We need strong school board members who know right from wrong. The Bible, being the only true source of right and wrong, should be the guide of board members. Only godly Christians can truly qualify for this critically important position...." (How to Elect Christians to Public Office, 1985).

Quotes from Beverly LaHaye (Concerned Women for America)

"Yes, religion and politics do mix. America is a nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our government. The test of those values is the Bible. Politicians who do not use the bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office." (Ms., 2/87)

On censorship: "I am aware that America is and must always be a land of freedom including freedom of speech. But there is a right time and place for everything." (CWA News, 3/91)

Mrs. LaHaye warned her members that homosexuals "want their depraved 'values' to become our children's values. Homosexuals expect society to embrace their immoral way of life. Worse yet, they are looking for new recruits!" (CWA direct mail, 5/92)

Quotes from Phyllis Schlafly (Eagle Forum)

On sexual harassment: "If there's no proof, it's all in your mind. We don't want a policeman at every water cooler, you know." (USA Today, 9/9/91)

"Nothing about contraception should be taught in schools. There is no question that it will encourage sexual activity." (New York Times, 10/17/92)

On the election of President Bill Clinton: "Some people think that pro-family and conservatives do better in adversity than they do in success, and I think there will be a great rallying of the pro-family movement." (Family News in Focus, 11/5/92)

"You can't get into negotiations with the feminists because you will lose. They will slit your throat. They have no sense of fair play or compromise." (National Affairs Briefing, 8/92)

Quotes from Gary Bauer (Family Research Council)

On the decision by Cracker Barrel Restaurants to refuse to hire homosexuals: "I believe in the equality of all races and I do not believe in the equality of all sexual acts." (Family News in Focus, 3/4/91)

"Clinton has pulled off...an incredible con game here.... A year after Inauguration Day either Reagan Democrats will feel betrayed or all those left wing radical groups will feel betrayed, and in either case, he's in trouble." (World magazine, 11/7/92)

"I think of Justices Souter, Kennedy, and Justice O'Connor who voted against us on that [Lee v. Weisman] decision and on the abortion decision. The thought struck me that these must be the only three people in America who don't understand why they were put on the Supreme Court." (National Affairs Briefing, 8/92)

On funding the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA): The NEA "has allowed itself to be used by a small cadre of cultural revolutionaries, militant homosexuals and anti-religious bigots who are intent on attacking the average American's most deeply held beliefs while sending them the bill." (FRC direct mail, 10/90)

Quote from James Dobson (Focus on the Family)

"Co-educational sex education sheds children, girls especially, of natural modesty." (Barren County, KY Progress, 8/31/89)

Quotes from Randall Terry (Operation Rescue)

"Christians beware... To vote for Bill Clinton is to sin against God. (OR pamphlet, 10/92)

"[The judiciary is] the lap dog of the death industry." (Fresno, CA Bee, 8/20/89)

"Blackmun and Stevens are enemies of Christ. When history's final editorial light is cast upon them 50 or 100 years from now, they're going to be remembered with Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin." (Christianity Today, 9/10/90)

"People have got to ask themselves . . . what kind of America do we want? What principles do we want guiding this country's education, judiciary? We want biblical principles. Because if we don't have biblical principles, we have heathenism. we have anything goes! We have humanism! We could have barbarism!" (A Call to Action, 5/9/91)

"I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good...Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty, we are called by God to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism." (The News Sentinel, Fort Wayne, IN, Aug. 16, 1993)

"What it is coming down to is who runs the country. It's us against them. It's the good guys versus the bad guys. It's the God-fearing people against the pagans, and some of the pagans are going to church." (Speech, 1992)

"Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies." (Speech, 1993)

"When I, or people like me, are running the country, you'd better flee, because we will find you, we will try you, and we will execute you. I mean every word of it. I will make it part of my mission to see to it that they are tried and executed...If we're going to have true reformation in America, it is because men once again, if I may use a worn out expression, have a righteous testosterone flowing through their veins. They are not afraid of contempt for their contemporaries. They are not here to get along. They are here to take over..." (Addressing a banquet sponsored by the US Tax Payes Alliance, Aug. 8, 1995)

Quotes from Lou Sheldon (Traditional Values Coalition)

"Give us a few more years under the belt and we will learn how to replace many of the school board members. Give us more time to understand how the system works, and we'll work the system even better than one could ever imagine." (CNN News, 9/2/90)

"On the issue of homosexuality, we are the same place we were in the 1930s with alcoholism. Back then, we said, 'once a drunk, always a drunk.' But now we know many alcoholics can recover." (Wash. Times, 2/5/90)

"There is a war waging in America. The battle is over values, beliefs and the cultural basis of western civilization.... he elitist avant-garde arts community uses the NEA to advertise and disseminate their political beliefs. The NEA then uses our scarce tax dollars to fund works which are intended to shock Americans into an acceptance of dysfunctional behavioral lifestyles and to destroy the family." (Hearing on the NEA, 4/91)

Quotes from Rush Limbaugh

"There is only one way to eliminate nuclear weapons...use them" (Rush Limbaugh, "The Way Things Ought to Be")

"Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society." (Rush Limbaugh, "The Way Things Ought to Be" (1994 edition)

Quote from Helen Chenoweth

"Don't let anything like trees in the Clearwater National Forest get in the way of providing jobs and fueling the economy, even if that means cutting down every last tree in the state." -Congresswoman Helen Chenoweth (R-ID), during her 1994 campaign

Quote from Jerry Falwell

"Most of these feminists are radical, frustrated lesbians, many of them, and man-haters, and failures in their relationships with men, and who have declared war on the male gender. The Biblical condemnation of feminism has to do with its radical philosophy and goals. That's the bottom line." Jerry Falwell

Quotes from Bob Dornan

"Don't use the word 'gay' unless it's an acronym for 'Got Aids Yet'". -Former Representative Bob Dornan (R-CA)

"Men in the pro-choice movement are either men trapped in women's bodies...or younger guys who are like camp followers looking for easy sex." -Former Rep. Bob Dornan (R-CA) (L.A. Times, 2/10/90)

Quote from Dick Armey

"I am outraged that [the abortion issue] is viewed through the perspective of the woman - a femme-centric perspective that condones the self-indulgent conduct of the woman who was damn careless in the first place." Congressman Dick Armey (R-TX) in an Education and Labor subcommittee on Labor Management Relations, 5/12/94)

Quote from Jesse Helms

"We've got to have some common sense about a disease transmitted by people deliberately engaging in unnatural acts." Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC), on why he opposed approval of the Ryan White CARE act, which funds AIDS research.

Quote from Henry Hyde

"There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall." - Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL), repeating a joke he heard.

Other Quote Sources:

Pat Buchanan: In His Own Words: A very good page full of Pat Buchanan quotes. See what Pat really thinks about racial and ethnic minorities, women, gays, and Jews.

Quotes from the Religious Right: These are quotes gathered by a chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and they relate mostly to the conservative positions on that issue.

The Right-Wing: In Their Own Words: Many of the quotes on this page were taken from this website. Be sure to check out the other informative areas they have dedicated to the Regressive Right.

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