Wilkos Quotes

#1. It's basically taking a 911 call, bringing them on stage and dealing with it just like when I was a Chicago policeman for 12 years. I personally become involved. Where Jerry lets people tell their story and lets everything happen on stage, I kind of go after the bad guy and protect the little guy.

Steve Wilkos

#2. I'm a big believer in personal responsibility. My life wasn't always peaches and roses. Where I am today is through a belief in hard work and never saying no.

Steve Wilkos

#3. It's hard to describe yourself as a hero - I just like to think of myself as a policeman. People can look to you like that, as a good guy who can help people.

Steve Wilkos

#4. When I walk down the street, it's not like people feel like they're seeing some big star. It's like someone they've known for a long time, someone that they feel comfortable with.

Steve Wilkos

#5. Poor Nelly, she was not to know that fashions in sin change as much as other fashions.

Claire Tomalin

#6. I couldn't do my show without spending 12 years on the streets of Humboldt Park. It made me a better interrogator. Still, if they had taken me out of my squad car and gave me a show, I would've been terrible. But on 'Springer,' the spotlight was on Jerry and I got to grow up within the show.

Steve Wilkos

#7. George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of the next generation of people.

Howard Zinn

#8. Students of the twenty-first century require flexible environments with ever growing capacities like the Internet where literally the world is at their fingertips.

Starr Sackstein

#9. In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.

Herbert Croly

#10. I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could happen.
But maybe that particular delusion was universal.

Robin Wasserman

#11. My wife gets asked all the time, 'Ugh, how can you be married to that guy?' She's like, 'Hey, he's not yelling and screaming at me!'

Steve Wilkos

#12. I'd like to be the next Oprah financially, but I'm not a TV actor. I'm not someone with an entertainment background, I'm a cop. And I'm not afraid to go anywhere and get down and dirty.

Steve Wilkos

#13. You're only going to get surface with me. It takes me ages to warm up to people.

Dave Gahan

#14. As players, you just play for the club. I love Man United, I'm going to play for Man United, and that's what my focus is on.

Ryan Giggs

#15. The simple fact was, Gideon and I were the best and worst things that had ever happened to each other

Sylvia Day

#16. Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

Robert Rodriguez

#17. I've been watching 'Pawn Stars' every week for the last year. I like learning about the history behind the items that people bring into the pawnshop. I actually pawned a ring once that a woman sent to me while I was on 'Jerry Springer.' It was really gaudy.

Steve Wilkos

#18. fide members of registered shooting clubs,

Michael E. Rose

#19. My show is not just a cop hosting a talk show - the two are completely different. My show is about helping people stand up to the bad guy.

Steve Wilkos

#20. I went home one night and told my dad that an older kid was picking on me. My Dad, a Korean War vet and a Chicago cop for 30 years, told me, 'You better pick up a brick and hit him in the head.' That's when I thought, 'Wow, I'm going to have to start dealing with things in a different way.'

Steve Wilkos

#21. I'd take a bullet for just about anyone! If someone pulled out a gun, I'd step in front of you even though I've never met you.

Steve Wilkos

#22. Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.

Chris Hayes

#23. Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

Charlie Chaplin

#24. Music is an art, if not a part,
You are just another stubborn sort ...

Babu Rajan