Geraldo Rivera Quotes (44 Quotes)



    When a Spanish man cries it's not a sign of weakness.

    Let them walk out of here, let them walk the hell out of here ... Walk to some other town. Walk someplace where you can help 'em. ... These people in the same clothes, where do you think they go to the bathroom They don't wash their hands, they don't wash their face, these babies. What the hell


    I think of myself as Special Forces, clearing the path for the infantry.



    Perhaps areas of Israel where current large Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli expansion into the West Bank to include most of East Jerusalem.

    The biggest stories in 2005 were the national disasters.

    With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories in the human dimension and impart the passion and visceral reactions the audience seeks.

    Reject racial or religious hate. Embrace moderate Islam.

    I've made a connection with the television audience by being a proud Latino man. I am passionate for what I do, courageous in the face of peril, honest and straightforward.

    The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.

    There are so many babies here, ... Take a look, I want everyone in the world to see. ... Look in the face of the baby. ... People are suffering, let them go ... Let them walk over this damn interstate and let them out of here.

    Saturday Night Live is hitting me on a regular basis again. This is my fourth decade that I've been lampooned on Saturday Night Live.


    I had nothing to do with generating this letter, and I was pleasantly surprised.

    The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen... with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers.

    We didn't tell the families what happened, the families told us what happened. The families were informed by the governor and his staff and by other rescue-connected people. We were here and took the same emotional ride as the families.

    tailor their journalism on the basis of whether it's someone they like or respect or not, and I think it's really scandalous.

    no, it's not safe here. I'm safe because I have these 2-3 policemen around me, but there aren't any other policemen here, and there are 30,000 angry, hungry people.

    Jackson and I spent the day together, just me and him and his children. Little underlings came and went. The PR person came and went. It was just Michael and me and the kids. And it was very interesting.


    From the White House to the Lust Boat The Lurid, Untold Life of the National Football League.

    Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn't get federal subsidies. If you want to stay there, take the risk.

    One thing about these storms, we know how disruptive things can be when we depend on the system to keep working. What would happen if the terrorists do it? Knock down the power, destroy bridges, cut the water supply?

    I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.

    Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants.

    This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war, you have to be compassionate and loving towards our troops.

    I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York.

    It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics.

    I must be doing something right. I've been around for a long time.

    One of the real tests of journalistic integrity is being fair to someone who might best be described by a four-letter word.

    It's interesting that the Katrina coverage hearkened back to those topics . . . what I've always covered, ... I feel like the news business has come back to me, rather than the other way around.

    Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white.

    The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down.

    What four-letter word do they have in mind ... Hero

    To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

    I hope I'm the rock 'n' roll graybeard . . . the wise man of the new generation,

    Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

    She should stay right where she is. Katie's brilliant on the show. She's part of this amazing quartet that's the best in the business, team-wise. She's reaching millions of people, and she goes wherever she wants to.

    Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.

    There's no way New Orleans will ever be the city it was. I think it will have half the population. They may create a sort of Disneyland at the French Quarter for tourists. The rest I don't know.

    The Fox years have accelerated the process . . . because there's an animus for Fox as well as for me, ... It's intellectually lazy to attack me at this point. I've been parodied by four decades of Saturday Night Live Who's going to beat Jim Carrey Just run with the lemmings and put down Geraldo.

    I'm old, but I'm still cute and strong. And very butch.


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