Jerry Springer Quotes

The bias against the show is purely elitist. We're all like the people on the show - the difference is that some of us speak better, or were born richer. There's nothing that happens on my show that rich people don't experience.

I should get a weekend show where all I do is play country music.

You're a transsexual fighting with a hermaphrodite over a mistress.

To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different.

In one generation, my family went from extermination simply because of how they pray to God to this ridiculously privileged life I live today. So how can I not love America?

It really was a hell of a motorcycle, ..It was arguably the first American motorcycle company, beating Harley by a year or so. Indian was the standard by which everything was gauged.

We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.

[Invading Iraq] would create generations that hated the USA.

The Statue of Liberty means everything. We take it for granted today. We take it for granted. Remember the Statue of Liberty stands for what America is. We as Democrats have to remind ourselves and remind the country the great principles we stand for. This is a place of protection. This is not a country of bullies. We are not an empire. We are the light. We are the Statue of Liberty.

I opposed the war in Iraq because I did not believe it was in our national security interest, and I still don't. What we [America] did was akin to taking a baseball bat to a beehive. Our primary security threat right now is terrorism
and by doing what we did in Iraq, we've managed to alienate a good part of the world and most of the allies whose intelligence and other help we need to combat and defeat terrorism.

Love is great for us, but we don't always love who is great for us.

My guess is more reporters probably vote Democrat than Republican - just because I think reporters are smart.

I knew early on that I would do politics, but I would never make a living at it. I would do something else.

All of us, whether or not we're celebrities, every one ought to spend part of their life making someone else's life better.

Somewhere in the land, a monster lurked.

I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role.

I'm in shape, but only if you consider a circle a shape.

It's hard thinking about Iraq at night when I'm dancing with transvestites in the afternoon.

TV is a huge draw. It's a magnet. Even when I was a policeman, if I was on a police scene and the news showed up, I'd race home to see if I would be on TV for 2 seconds!

I watch sports and cable news. I'm a political junkie, so that's my interest.

Look after yourself and each other

I'm a happy guy, but if I'm in a rare dark mood, I won't go out because I don't want to be horrible to people.

I treat politics kind of like my religion. It's something I believe in, but I don't want to have to make a living at it, because if you make a living at it, you somehow become dishonest.

We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.

With a face like mine, I do better in print.

Obviously I wanted to be a bus driver - and I still do. If only I could get a part time job.