Bill O'Reilly Quotes

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O'Reilly: Mr. Silverman, it is a fact that Christianity is not a religion, it is a philosophy. If the government were saying that the Methodist religion, all right, deserves a special place in the public square, I will be on your side.
Silverman: So you are going to actually tell me on live television that Christianity is not a religion?
O'Reilly: Correct. It is a phil-o-so-phy.

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I go on Good Morning America yesterday and say that I'm personally sorry my analysis on WMDs before the war was wrong and I'm angry about the CIA mistake. I mean, any honest commentator would say that, but the left-wing press sees my admission as some kind of liberal policy vindication and is using my words to hammer the president. Well, that's dishonest. I still believe removing Saddam was the right thing to do and that history will prove it. And there's also the possibility that WMDs will be found, so I might have to apologize for my apology. I don't mind. I still hope they find WMDs.

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Winston Churchill said that democracy was the worst possible form of government, except for all the others. Maybe we can say the same about capitalism. For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few... Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy.

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I just wish Katrina had only hit the United Nations building, nothing else, just had flooded them out, and I wouldn't have rescued them.

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If I'm the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium, and I say, "Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting, you're not going to get another nickel in federal funds. Fine. You want to be your own country? Go right ahead. And if Al-Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead."

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[to guest saying the war is "going to go on for months"] There's no way. There's absolutely no way. They may bomb for a matter of weeks, try to soften them up as they did in Afghanistan. But once the United States and Britain unleash, it's maybe hours. They're going to fold like that.

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All I ask is for powerful people to respond honestly to the questions, and if they can't, explain why.

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Every fair-minded person should support government safety nets for people who need assistance through no fault of their own. But guys like McDermott don't make distinctions like that. For them, the baby Jesus wants us to "provide," no matter what the circumstance. But being a Christian, I know that while Jesus promoted charity at the highest level, he was not self-destructive.

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You know, look, if I could strangle these people and not go to hell and get executed, I would, but I can't.

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David Letterman How can you possibly take exception with the motivation and the position of someone like Cindy Sheehan? Bill O'Reilly Because I think she's run by far-left elements in this country. I feel bad for the woman. David Letterman Have you lost family members in armed conflict? Bill O'Reilly No, I have not. David Letterman Well, then you can hardly speak for her, can you?

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There is no question that Whoopi Goldberg's foolish comments at a John Kerry fundraiser hurt Kerry — who had no idea how to handle the situation. Chevy Chase should have learned from that. Even he has to know that calling the president of the United States an "F" is not going to be accepted by most Americans. Now you don't see this kind of thing on the right. You don't see prominent conservatives cursing out Democratic members of Congress, for example. Now I know talk radio can get rough but nothing like what these Hollywood nitwits are throwing out there.

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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, all right?

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Bill O'Reilly I'm effete. I'm not a tough guy. This is all an act. Stephen Colbert You're breaking my heart, Bill. Bill O'Reilly I'm sensitive, y'know, I'm a— Stephen Colbert If you're an act, then what am I?

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Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.

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Bill O'Reilly You didn't hear it and you don't know what I did. Chris Dodd Focus on your legitimate criticism. Bill O'Reilly Look, you're a propagandist, Senator. You're a propagandist.

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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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John Stossel: That nun has something to complain about, but your "war on Christianity", you're just a 10-foot-tall crybaby.
Bill O'Reilly: I'm crying.
John Stossel: It's not so bad. I mean, no, Christians aren't being killed.
Bill O'Reilly: No, not yet.
John Stossel: And not in America, and they're not going to be.
Bill O'Reilly: They're verbally being killed.

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And guys, if you exploit a girl, it will come back to get you. That's called "karma."

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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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Mary Katherine Ham I still don't think she's a Nazi. Bill O'Reilly I didn't say she was a Nazi. Mary Katherine Ham [laughing] Alright. Bill O'Reilly I only said there's no difference between what the two do. I want everybody to know that.

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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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The hate websites on both the left and the right— I object to. You know I object to. Now, you're a little bit more a libertarian about this in our previous conversations. But I say this. There's no difference between the KKK and the Nazis, who have websites, than the Daily Kos. Because the Daily Kos is basically saying, "We're allowing this kind of thing to come on." It's good that Tony Snow has a recurrence of cancer; we hope he dies. We're sorry the assassination attempt against Dick Cheney failed; let them try again. And on and on and on and on.

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At times you have to fight. No way around it. At some point, every one of us is confronted with danger or injustice. How we choose to combat that challenge is often life-defining. You can face difficulties head-on, or run from them, or ignore them until they consume you. But no one escapes conflict. No one.

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It is a powerful statement that a good man suffered for me, that a just God was looking out for me, and if I lived a good life, I would be rewarded after death. Those beliefs, sincerely held, can get a human being through many hard times.…

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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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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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Meantime, the anti-liberal Fox News Channel and The Wall Street Journal, whose editorial page is conservative, are both doing very well.

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Millions of American families are dealing with teenage pregnancy... It is true that some Americans will judge Governor Palin and her family. There's nothing anyone can do about it.

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Many parents are worried in America about the gay agenda and indoctrination of their children to see homosexuality in a certain way.

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It's all coming from the haters on the far left. Just throw it in the garbage. But the regular folks who really enjoy this program, what we want you to ask, Laurie, is why do we do things? Why do we do them?

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