Bill OReilly Quotes (41 Quotes)

I don't think you should talk about yourself in public, because nothing good ever happens.

It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.

did see people who were going into open stores ... and gathering whatever they could, whether it be sodas or chips. The Wal-Mart right on the beach had been blown entirely out and all the contents had been strewn out the back and people were coming with trucks and backing up to that lot and taking whatever they could from the Wal-Mart.

I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam.

Yeah, I'm obnoxious, yeah, I cut people off, yeah, I'm rude. You know why? Because you're busy.

I don't understand why in the year 2000, with all of the media that we have, that a certain segment of the African-American community does not understand that they must aggressively pursue their child's welfare. That is they have to stop drinking, they have to stop taking drugs and boozing, and - and whites do it, too Whites do it, too

When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.

You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC.

But I don't have any confidence in Donald Rumsfeld at this point. Do you, Colonel Cowan I don't think he's leveling with the American people. I think that he doesn't have enough people over there to clean up the corruption, or fight the insurgency, or provide security for the oil pipeline, which they need for the money. I don't have any confidence in the secretary of defense at this point.

Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.

This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded.

Jobs that cannot be delivered must never be promised. It's unfair to raise people's hopes that way.

a real debate on the issues, not his silly name-calling.

NBC censored those remarks on the west coast and the remarks are simply nutty. I mean. Come on. West is saying authorities want to shoot blacks Doesn't get more irresponsible than that. But what do you expect from an ideologically driven newspaper industry and the world of rap where anything goes. .What do you expect

The children of America have seen with their own eyes that liars can win and cheaters can prosper. They know that our nation will accept venal behavior and, in some cases, reward it with tremendous wealth and power. So why wouldn't they lie, cheat and steal.

Commentary and opinion is not spin. What spin is, is taking a set of circumstances, all right, and taking that circumstance and making it not what it is.

Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.

Conservative people tend to see the world in black and white terms, good and evil. Liberals see grays. In any talk format, you have to pound home a strong point of view. If you're not providing controversy and excitement, people won't listen, or watch.

Let's get on to O. J. Simpson because we only have two minutes and this is very interesting to me. ... I think it's collective wisdom that the man did kill the two AMERICANS (my emphasis), his ex-wife and Ronald Goldman.

You give opinion. I give opinion. Has nothing to do with spin.

How desperate some in the print media are to smear Fox News. In the words of Teresa Heinz Kerry, the newspaper critics can shove it.

You want to have two guys making out in front of your 4-year-old? It's OK with them. A guy smoking a joint, blowing the smoke into your little kid's face? OK with them. And I'm not exaggerating here. This is exactly what the secular movement stands for.

For some people, there is no such thing as the truth.

This was a good thing for America. ... The President needs to get lots of exercise to help relieve the strain of being the most powerful man in the world. Mr. Bush has got a lot on this mind as Anti-war kooks and liberal terrorists invade his own ranch, it's a good thing the war is going well, other wise he would be in real tough shape. Yep, the President needs to stay fit. We need a strong President. I would even bet that Mr. Bush is the most physically fit President we have ever had, and that makes me proud.

I don't think you'll see a bigger crowd of broadcast news people ever.

They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut.

Wait a minute. I'm running this operation, Bill.

If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.

Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.

You have no clue about how to fight a war on terror or how to defend your country. You are clueless, so is Ms. Sheehan. And for Ms. Sheehan to say the insurgents have a right to kill Americans, and you're shaking her hand You ought to just walk away.

You must know the difference between dissent from the Iraq war and the war on terror and undermining it. And any American that undermines that war, with our soldiers in the field, or undermines the war on terror, with 3,000 dead on 911, is a traitor. Everybody got it Dissent, fine undermining, you're a traitor. Got it So, all those clowns over at the liberal radio network, we could incarcerate them immediately. Will you have that done, please Send over the FBI and just put them in chains, because they, you know, they're undermining everything and they don't care, couldn't care less.

As the tree is bent, so it will grow.

As much as the timing, the choice of celebrities for the telethon was also highly suspect. The night's lineup looked more like a meeting roster for the American Communist Party than anything else, ... What, was Tom Selleck too busy Drew Carrey likes guns, where was he It's like they didn't even try.

We'd save lives because Mexican wetbacks, whatever you want to call them, the coyotes--they're not going to do what they're doing now, all right, so people aren't going to die in the desert.

That boy made a decision to serve his country. Do not denigrate him, or you're out of here.

responsibility of other American families who have lost sons and daughters in Iraq, who feel that this kind of behavior borders on treasonous.

Lotsa people want to hurt me. That's the price you pay for being a big mouth.

When you call us, ladies and gentlemen, just so you know, we do have your phone number, and if you say anything untoward, obscene, or anything like that, Fox security will then contact your local authorities, and you will be held accountable.

We are chasing down the truth here and that is a hard game.

Sean Penn is a left-wing guy, ... He's been that way, his father was that way, he's always going to be that way. He goes down to New Orleans with his boat, he rescues some people, and he does some good. The right kills him, and his wife curses at the right - it's all just a whole big charade. It doesn't really mean anything other than the fact that the guy did actually rescue some people.

That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.