Geraldo Rivera Quotations

I am enduring. You can disagree with me.

I think of myself as Special Forces, clearing the path for the infantry.

I must be doing something right. I've been around for a long time.

Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.

The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.

Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants

To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

Reject racial or religious hate. Embrace moderate Islam

Perhaps areas of Israel where current large Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli expansion into the West Bank to include most of East Jerusalem

I'm old, but I'm still cute and strong. And very butch.

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics

The biggest stories in 2005 were the national disasters

The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen... with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers

When a Spanish man cries it's not a sign of weakness

Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white.

The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down

Jackson and I spent the day together, just me and him and his children. Little underlings came and went. The PR person came and went. It was just Michael and me and the kids. And it was very interesting.

One thing about these storms, we know how disruptive things can be when we depend on the system to keep working. What would happen if the terrorists do it? Knock down the power, destroy bridges, cut the water supply?

There's no way New Orleans will ever be the city it was. I think it will have half the population. They may create a sort of Disneyland at the French Quarter for tourists. The rest I don't know

With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories in the human dimension and impart the passion and visceral reactions the audience seeks

I'd like to give divorce a good name.

Give Hamas 90 days to pick a lane, then react.

I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.

I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.

We didn't tell the families what happened, the families told us what happened. The families were informed by the governor and his staff and by other rescue-connected people. We were here and took the same emotional ride as the families.

She should stay right where she is. Katie's brilliant on the show. She's part of this amazing quartet that's the best in the business, team-wise. She's reaching millions of people, and she goes wherever she wants to.

One of the real tests of journalistic integrity is being fair to someone who might best be described by a four-letter word.

From the White House to the Lust Boat: The Lurid, Untold Life of the National Football League.

he nudged an Air Force rescue worker out of the way so his camera crew could tape him as he helped lift an older woman in a wheelchair to safety.

What four-letter word do they have in mind? ... Hero?

As far as I'm concerned, the case is closed. I want everybody to remember who made the factual error and refused to correct it.

A lot of what Oprah does is not so distant from what we do,

It's not a question of subjectivity. It's about reality.

tailor their journalism on the basis of whether it's someone they like or respect or not, and I think it's really scandalous.

It's interesting that the Katrina coverage hearkened back to those topics . . . what I've always covered, ... I feel like the news business has come back to me, rather than the other way around.

no, it's not safe here. I'm safe because I have these 2-3 policemen around me, but there aren't any other policemen here, and there are 30,000 angry, hungry people.

I had nothing to do with generating this letter, and I was pleasantly surprised.

I hope I'm the rock 'n' roll graybeard . . . the wise man of the new generation,

I like Chris Christie also. I like him a lot as a person. He didn't do anything to help me when I thinking of running for senate in New Jersey. But I give him a little slack.

There are plenty of towns in America where the 4-year-old has shot his 2-year-old sister by using daddy's gun.

It's good (Michelle Malkin's) in D.C. and I'm in New York. I'd spit on her if I saw her.

Every time you see someone sticking up a 7-Eleven, the kid's wearing a hoodie. Every time you see a mugging on a surveillance camera or they get the old lady in the alcove, it's a kid wearing a hoodie. You have to recognize that this whole stylizing yourself as a gangsta - you're going to be a gangsta wannabe? Well, people are going to perceive you as a menace,

I'm tired of getting made fun of.

A range of studies shows there is no evidence immigrants commit more crime than native-born Americans. In fact, first generation immigrants are predisposed to lower crime rates than native-born Americans. The two cities in this country most impacted by undocumented immigrants, you would think of the New York City with over 500,000 and Los Angeles, with a similar amount. Both those cities are among the safest in the free world.

That is entirely fitting I'm sure, but I personally can't get over the memory of 2005. When Michael Jackson stood essentially alone and accused and convicted in the minds of many of the most perverse crime.

Saturday Night Live is hitting me on a regular basis again. This is my fourth decade that I've been lampooned on Saturday Night Live

The killer bees have gone, like rats deserting the Titanic.

If I've done anything, I've brought passion to television.

Latinos are just like everybody else. There are conservatives. There are moderates. There are liberals.

Michelle Malkin is the most vile, hateful commentator I've ever met in my life. She actually believes that neighbors should start snitching out neighbors, and we should be deporting people. It's good she's in D.C. and I'm in New York. I'd spit on her if I saw her.

I think that the, Ted Cruz is not even a natural-born citizen, argument will resonate for at least the next few weeks.

Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn't get federal subsidies. If you want to stay there, take the risk

I would argue [Donald]Trump is the [Barack] Obama of this election cycle.

I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York.

There is no doubt in my view that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee.

If you think is was an accident, applaud.

Being a president is being a CEO, essentially.

I've made a connection with the television audience by being a proud Latino man. I am passionate for what I do, courageous in the face of peril, honest and straightforward.

I think the Jews need me right now.

Colorado is a swing state, like Nevada, like North Carolina, like Florida. It all depends. [Donald] Trump has offended Mexicans and Muslims and millennials and some women. Will those offended people be energized to show up in the way that Trump supporters are energized to show up? It will be an energy.

I've never quite been a peer of Donald [Trump]. When I knew him it was more in a social way. We were single at kind of the same time. You know having fun in that sense, but I've watched his career with great admiration, and now to really see him as an employee sees him as an aspirant within the corporate structure of the Trump enterprises is really fascinating.

This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war, you have to be compassionate and loving towards our troops

The Jewish people, for their tiny numbers, have done superbly. They don't need me. They have Einstein. They have everybody - Maury Povich.

This is a sleaze bag murdering dog and he [O.J. Simpson] has played us for fools. And the worst thing he did was exacerbate the racial divide in this country. He divided black and white America.

McKinney, Texas is the number one place to live in the country. It's certainly the number place to live in Texas according to Forbes and all these other. Wonderfully integrated, it's upscale.

I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin's death as George Zimmerman was.

He [Donald Trump] is a tough boss. I've known him for decades. He hasn't changed very much. He's a driven person, highly intelligent, and he's very motivated, very charismatic, and he is tough as nails in the sense there's no slack there. You can't put anything over on Donald. Donald can see right through someone trying to dissemble or spin stuff.

I love cops. I think you have to walk in their shoes to understand, you know when they use violence, Michael Brown in Ferguson, a classic case.

I like the fact that it [social media] is unfiltered. In other words it's not Geraldo of Fox News or Geraldo of WABC Radio, it's Geraldo. And you know it's raw, unedited, what I'm thinking, what I'm feeling, or, you know, some mistakes I'm making in real time. And I see that as a way to go out kicking and screaming. People will be hearing from me 'til the bitter end now.

I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies.

I did an expose of an institution for the population with developmental disabilities, and the institutions were closed as a result of the expose. Now the developmentally disabled are cared for in small community-based residences, and I've been working very hard over the decades to open as many of them as I can.

Am I the only one who thinks Nancy Grace's relentless cheer leading for Jodi Arias' death gross & excessive? The anchor as executioner?!

Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years,

The Fox years have accelerated the process . . . because there's an animus for Fox as well as for me, ... It's intellectually lazy to attack me at this point. I've been parodied by four decades of Saturday Night Live: Who's going to beat Jim Carrey? Just run with the lemmings and put down Geraldo.