Jane Velez-Mitchell Quotes

Someone once told me that being in the closet is like living in a vertical casket. Perfect description.

It was gross enough for fast food restaurants to ban, but apparently our government wants so-called pink slime to be a staple in your kids' lunches.

What's it like to figure out you're gay and then begin the process of coming out? Well, for most of my life, I felt doomed. I could imagine no path that would allow me to realize my authentic self. I felt the need to lie, even to myself, insisting: I am straight.

Public downfalls are more painful and humiliating than private ones.

Travis Alexander was a good guy. Was he a saint? No. But he was somebody who was really, really invested in helping other people and making this world a better place. Everything he did, even the car he drove, was a sign of him trying to be a force for good in this world.

Meat production is one of the leading causes of climate change because of the destruction of the rainforest for grazing lands, the massive amounts of methane produced by farm animals and the huge amounts of water, grain and other resources required to feed animals.

I am what I want. What I seek to consume, possess, and achieve is a mirror that reflects my lusts and cravings, values and priorities, and moral boundaries or lack thereof.

Child Protective Services, all over the country, need to be revamped top to bottom.

Jodi Arias had a deadly obsession with Travis Alexander.

The killer whale Tilikum has helped SeaWorld sell millions of dollars worth of tickets.

There's no constitutional right for your parents to pay for college.

Using animals for entertainment is big business, plain and simple.

I dream of a post-racial society that is not categorized by the color of their skin.

We have got to stop being a society that turns our heads and looks the other way.

Where do thoroughbreds go after they lose one too many races, throw one too many riders, or develop a limp? Many thousands of thoroughbreds end up being slaughtered for horse meat. The unpleasant truth is horse meat is eaten in Europe and Asia.

Redemption isn't giving a bank robber a job as a teller.

In Hollywood, they say good news finds you.

We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.

When you're in the closet, you feel like the sky will fall down if anyone finds out. A lot of the fear is self-generated.

Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.

Every decision we make - when we choose a vehicle, when we pump gas into that vehicle, when we order food - is not just a personal lifestyle choice. It's an environmental and moral choice.

Capture of a wild animal is invariably traumatic.

Every day, it seems, a new extreme weather catastrophe happens somewhere in America, and the media's all over it, profiling the ordinary folks wiped out by forest fires, droughts, floods, massive sinkholes, tornadoes.

The natural world is not indestructible.

I do believe that Jodi Arias shows a lot of signs of mental illness.

McDonald's says it's phasing out pig gestation crates. When I heard that news, I almost started crying.

I love 'Scandal.' It's my favorite show - it's really - the only one I really watch.

We have been brainwashed into craving a diet that is killing us. What we believe tastes good is generally what we have been socially conditioned to enjoy.

Now, Spitzer was an anti-crime crusader cracking down on prostitution and Wall Street corruption. So some people were looking to take him down.

We have secrets, and we have the same secrets that criminals have. Sometimes the only difference between a criminal and a law-abiding citizen is that somebody found out the criminal's secret.

USDA says pink slime, which is made of cow connective tissue and other scraps and then treated with ammonia to kill the salmonella, e Coli, potentially, the U.S. Government says it's totally safe.

Taking care of our families isn't just about putting food on the table today. It's about ensuring that our children and grandchildren will have a habitable world where they can get to know various species of sea turtles.

What does animal welfare have to do with food safety? The animals are the food! They are living in their own excrement, developing horrific sores, stressed out, and, therefore, more vulnerable to illness and disease.

Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?

What does homophobia look like when it's stripped bare of fancy costumes like family values and tradition? It looks like that group of strange, angry people who protest at the funerals of U.S. soldiers who've died fighting for our country.

Agribusiness - with its wicked powerful lobby and its infiltration of top bureaucratic posts - essentially runs roughshod over the government agencies that are supposed to monitor it. It's the rich fox guarding the filthy, overcrowded henhouse.

I actually get quite sad when I smell bacon.

Unfortunately, fur is still flying off the racks. It's a billion dollar industry.

Go ahead, weathercasters and reporters: Tell Americans precisely what we don't want to hear: namely, that our self-indulgent, carbon-heavy, gluttonous and disposable lifestyle is precisely what is churning up the angry response from the skies and seas.

I think everybody who commits a violent killing is in some way crazy. But that doesn't mean we can let them off the hook for that.

The government sends low-flying helicopters to chase the horses into corrals and then takes them from the plains of the American West to federal holding pens. The government claims it's to save the horses from starvation. Critics claim the real motive is to clear the land for cattle grazing. Critics also say the horses are brutally traumatized.

Today, it seems almost everyone knows a friend or relative who is gay.

Family issues and a failing career would be enough to consume most young actresses.

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

A study, by its very nature, is an abstraction.

I say peace begins on your plate.

Cholesterol does not exist in vegetables. Vegetables do not clog arteries.

If parents don't instruct their kids on the narrow boundaries of respectful behavior toward the opposite sex, their kids won't learn it anywhere else.

There are definitions of morbid obesity. Doctors define it.

The raccoons, foxes, beavers, chinchillas, minks, rabbits, and yes, sometimes even dogs and cats that are killed for fur are not very different from your beloved dog or cat. They all have eyes, ears and hearts. They all experience pain when they are physically maimed. They shake with fear when they experience terror.

I've studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that's one of the reasons they're so convincing, because they have no connection with the truth. It's a dead issue. It's like they're color-blind to the truth. So anything that comes out of their mouths is their reality.

The worst environmental decision you can make as a human being is to have 14 kids.

A breeding sow spends most of her life in a tiny cage. It's usually about seven feet long and two feet wide. She cannot turn around. She cannot scratch herself. She must urinate and defecate where she stands. Simply put, I believe she is tortured, day in and day out.

I say, do not mess with Oprah. The one person in America you shouldn't mess with.

Scientists have shown that pigs are capable of playing simple video games, learning from each other, and even learning names.

In 2007, Lindsay Lohan seemed to be on top of the world, a bona fide star who had her pick of acting gigs. But it wasn't long before the veneer cracked, and Lindsay's life began to shatter.