Top 100 Bill O'Reilly Quotes
#1. Tom Hanks has taken George Clooney's place as the big-hitter driving a lot of liberal causes.
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#2. George Patton and Winston Churchill are simpatico.
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#3. Many conservatives were openly angry with the Bush administration over enormous government spending and the chaos in Iraq. I don't see as much independent thinking on the left, where President Obama is rarely criticized by his acolytes.
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#4. There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.
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#6. If you cross Fox News Channel, it's not just me, it's Roger Ailes who will go after youThe person gets what's coming to them but never sees it coming. Look at Al Franken, one day he's going to get a knock on his door and life as he's known it will change forever. That day will happen, trust me.
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#7. My mother's not a political person. She just doesn't want me to be mean ... sometimes I have to be mean. It's like a parent or a teacher. Sometimes for the good of everybody you have to be a little bit strong, a little bit confrontational.
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#8. Looking back, I clearly understand that seeing a 'chain of command' approach in my house was a positive thing for me. My father provided a strong point of view on life and was a leader. Boys, especially, need that.
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#9. The world is a fascinating, difficult place, and in order to take full advantage of what the planet has to offer, we need to see and hear natural things.
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#10. Your greatest fault," Eisenhower tells Patton, "is your audacity.
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#11. The only solution to the violence problem in America is a return to traditional parental involvement. This should be encouraged by every elected official. Also, the abandonment and neglect of children by their parents should have civil consequences.
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#12. My father firmly embraced the Ralph Kramden philosophy: he was king of his Levittown castle. He worked hard, and his family deferred to his wishes. Except me. I did not defer and was disciplined accordingly.
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#13. Calvin Coolidge, "There is no right to strike against the public safety, by anybody, anywhere, at any time." In
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#14. One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish.
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#15. When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.
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#16. Like a brain surgeon who drinks a martini when he's not on call, the successful kids in your school may smoke pot on occasion, but they are not stoners.
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#17. Oregon is outflanking California as the most left wing state in the union.
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#18. Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.
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#19. It won't take weeks ... Our military machine will crush Iraq in a matter of days and there's no question that it will.
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#20. Thousands of snapshots are taken of JFK that day. Many of them remain hanging in the pubs and homes of Galway.
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#21. For some reason, President Obama is being heckled about "don't ask, don't tell," which may be revoked. The president wants gays to be allowed to serve openly in the military.
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#22. Patton, at heart, is a simple man who wears his emotions on his sleeve. This makes him extremely poor at the sort of political posturing at which rivals such as Montgomery excel. The
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#23. Remember the Alamo" was the battle cry that led Sam Houston's troops to victory at the Battle of San Jacinto six weeks later - and Americans have never forgotten the sacrifices made there.
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#24. Mr. Obama is proud of his belief that government knows best. When he told the world that individuals were not totally responsible for their personal success, that government has a major role in it, many Americans were taken aback. But Barack Obama sincerely believes that.
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#25. The sand beneath the blast was instantly turned into a layer of green glass ten feet deep, and the shock waves could be felt one hundred miles away.
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#26. America today is a confused society, caught up in a terror war, a culture war, and a media war, where honesty and professional standards have vanished.
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#27. Saturday night at my house, I often trot out classic movies and force the urchins to watch them. There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but I think it's important to teach kids about American culture, and films are certainly a big part of it.
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#28. Have nothing to do with coaches. In fact, if you should see one coming, go and hide behind the pavilion until he goes away.
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#30. Get punctual, bring energy and creativity to your work, and stay with a project until it's completed (and then double-check the results). These habits will make you indispensable.
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#31. It (broadcast journalism) is a brutal arena where the knives are sharp and the toughest Kevlar vest in the world will not protect you forever.
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#32. Money has not changed me. I am living proof. I'm worse than I was, all right, when I was poor. I don't care about money. Money - you can't buy me. And I don't care about it.
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#33. Do the atheists in Wisconsin realize they're going to Hell? Did you ask them that?
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#34. I don't need the approval of the press, but I just wish they'd stop the viciousness ... I never felt sorry for people like Lindsay Lohan in my life. I thought they were dopey little movie stars. Now I feel sorry for those people.
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#35. If you don't provide a product that is satisfying people, no matter what your ideology, they tell you to take a hike.
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#36. Hanks' ideology first came into our zone shortly after 9/11, when he criticized me for asking Hollywood telethon stars to become more aggressive in getting the money to 9/11 families.
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#37. Yeah, I'm obnoxious, yeah, I cut people off, yeah, I'm rude. You know why? Because you're busy.
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#38. At the end of the day, every child has learned the Lesson of Spin: Almost every wrong action can be stripped of consequences, along with the need for feelings of guilt and remorse.
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#39. I'm a sensationalist. I'm a big mouth. I get attention. In this world you have to - if you want a mass-market presentation, you have to get attention.
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#40. George W. Bush cannot out-talk Al Gore. Period. Mr. Gore thinks faster on his feet and is much more verbal. So if that is the criteria, Gore won the debate. But if that is the criteria, Don Rickles should be President.
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#41. Jesus of Nazareth was the most famous human being who ever lived on this planet, and he had no infrastructure, and it's never been done. He had no government, no PR guy, no money, no structure. He had nothing, yet he became the most famous human being ever.
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#42. The gunfight at the O.K. Corral took place on October 26, 1881. It took about thirty seconds to write a chapter in American history that will never be forgotten.
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#43. I've been saying that all along, that if you open the door for gay marriage, then you have to have the polygamists and the triads and the commune people and everybody else, right?
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#44. It's just as much a stretch to believe in God as it is to be an Atheist
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#45. I submit that President Obama and all the democrat politicians that voted for Obamacare never even read the proposed law. Nancy Pelosi admitted it. So, now, when chaos reigns, they act surprised that things aren't working.
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#46. America offers the most amount of people the best opportunity to pursue happiness on the planet. That's why millions of illegal immigrants have poured into the country - most of them poor. They believe they have a shot to improve themselves economically.
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#47. This child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against, so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. And a sword will pierce your own soul, too.
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#48. If I am killed I can die but once," he is fond of saying, "but to live in constant dread is to die over and over again.
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#49. the idea that someone with a different upbringing, from a different part of the country, with a different outlook and a different viewpoint, might actually have something valid to say, something worth listening to.
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#50. Far be it for the public schools to teach this, but the U.S.A. was founded on basic Judeo-Christian principles. Don't believe me - take a trip to Washington D.C. and tour the Supreme Court building. There you will see a sculpted copy of the Ten Commandments on the wall.
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#51. You either fight active evil or you accept it. Doing nothing is acceptance. There is no in-between.
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#52. Evil cannot be "treated"
nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is in play. Society has no obligation to try to rehabilitate evil.
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#53. truly believe this child to be the new king. A furious Herod summons his religious advisers. As a secular
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#54. I know that Oswald killed Kennedy. Now, was he pushed? Encouraged to do it by outsiders? Possibly. Possibly. Was he sitting down with Fidel Castro? No.
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#55. The one thing the police cannot protect us from is a politician like Bill de Blasio.
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#56. I consider myself a law-abiding person. But I'm exhausted. I don't know where to put the bottles, newspapers, cans, and other stuff for garbage pickup outside my house. The rules are so thick you need someone from M.I.T. to explain them.
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#57. These so-called entertainers get rich while the kids who emulate their lyrics and attitude destroy themselves.
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#58. You know what's really frightening? You (Jon Stewart) actually have an influence on this presidential election. That is scary, but it's true. You've got stoned slackers watching your dopey show every night and they can vote.
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#60. Put down your guns and go home. Let's rebuild the nation together. This was President Lincoln's vision, to which Grant subscribed.
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#61. I don't care about the Constitution! The Constitution isn't here; you're here. Don't be a pinhead.
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#62. Growing up under the heavy hand of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, it was drummed into me that attending weekly mass was not an option. It was a must to avoid eternal damnation, which was not a prospect filled with many positives. Hell fire was perpetual, and no parole would be offered.
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#63. Back in 1998, he [Tom Hanks] gave the maximum amount of money that he could to Bill Clinton's defense fund. This is a man who was against gay marriage, as was Hillary Clinton.
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#64. Traditionalists like me believe the USA has become strong because of its core values, the freedom, individual responsibility and institutions like traditional marriage, which foster common goals.
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#66. Our philosophy is we call it as we see it. Sometimes you agree, sometimes you don't. Robust debate is good.
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#67. Alaskans are basically 'leave me alone' type people who respect and embrace different strokes.
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#68. Right now in Oregon anybody can open a saloon, and hire people to come in and have sex in front of their patrons.
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#69. Atheists well understand that Christmas is the most visible display of religion in the world, and that any diminishment of it is a good thing to militant secularists.
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#70. Whenever I go on a show with a comedian I just counter punch.
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#71. Single parent situations drive poverty and often lead to unsupervised kids. Many boys growing up without fathers often feel angry and abandoned. Thus, they seek comfort in all the wrong places.
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#72. Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.
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#73. Every book has mistakes in them, every one. There's never been a book published without mistakes.
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#74. The crisis isn't over. The prospect of nuclear war has never been greater. The United States is so close to invading Cuba that one bad joke in the nonstop series of ExComm meetings is that Bobby Kennedy will soon be mayor of Havana.
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#75. The Clintons opposed gay marriage. They did don't ask, don't tell. They did the Defense of Marriage Act.
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#76. All I ask is for powerful people to respond honestly to the questions, and if they can't, explain why.
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#77. Night is a time of terror. Worries and anxieties are unleashed by the darkness, when the distractions and the busyness of the day can no longer keep them at bay. Killing Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly
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#78. The Internet has become a hate-filled town square with no limits put on destructive verbal behavior.
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#79. We'll do it live ... WE'LL DO IT LIVE! FUCK IT! DO IT LIVE ... look, I'll write it and we'll do it live! Fucking thing SUCKS!
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#81. No matter how much evidence we uncover about this case or any others involving Mr. Clinton, millions of Americans simply will not care - they will excuse the corruption because they like Bill Clinton.
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#82. The Founding Fathers set up a system that heavily relied upon self-reliance and competition, with only a small dose of government intrusion.
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#83. You can't be a real man if you don't look out for your kids. They need you.
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#84. We live in an age where truth really doesn't matter anymore.
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#85. I shouldn't have called out Will Ferrell, but I am getting a little fed up with these people.You want to support Bernie [Sanders], knock yourself out. Does he know what Bernie stands for? Does he know what Bernie wants? And I submit to you, he doesn't.
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#86. In prosperous times, the marginal workers get by. But in tough times, they get the shaft.
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#87. Drive through a yellow light, and you may be ticketed thanks to a camera tied onto a pole. Everybody's watching everything. And then sending it out to the world via email.
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#88. The most powerful nation on earth should be able to pass a fair, effective immigration law that combines compassion with responsibility and does not injure hard working Americans who are taxed up to here.
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#89. They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut.
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#91. Once the war against Saddam begins, we expect every American to support our military, and if they can't do that, to shut Up.
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#92. Texting is addicting. Once you get emotionally involved with constant outside stimulation assaulting your brain, it is hard to stop looking at your machine every two minutes. Without rapid fire words appearing on a screen, you feel bored, not part of the action.
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#93. It's very difficult to pin down the President of the United States without subpoena powers.
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#94. We are all born with a grab bag of gifts and gaps. Identify your true talents, then find out how to use them to make money.
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#95. All great philosophers, even the atheists, realized that one of the essential attributes of a civilized people is a belief that good will be rewarded and evil will be punished. In
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#96. The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.
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#97. Many Americans simply don't want the pinheads in Washington or the various state capitals to be telling us how to live. But we are absolutely going in that direction. President Obama is hell-bent on imposing a bureaucracy that levels all playing fields at great expense in coin and in freedom.
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#98. Lincoln has become so addicted to the telegraph's instant news from the front that he still can't let go of the need for just one more bit of information, even though the prospect of another great battle is slim.
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#99. Tide comes in, tide goes out, you can't explain it!
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#100. Think about this some of us actively fighting to remove Saddam Hussein don't agree with the cause themselves, but they're doing their duty. And it is our duty as loyal Americans to shut up once the fighting begins, unless unless facts prove the operation wrong, as was the case in Vietnam.
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