Quotes by Bill O'Reilly

“If you have good friends keep them. If you dont have good friends, get them. True friendship, a rare gift, is never taken lightly. Your friends will tell you the truth about yourself, and not charge you $200 an hour. They will tell you the truth but they will stick by you when the rest of the world turns away.”

“If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and its clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.”

“The children of America have seen with their own eyes that liars can win and cheaters can prosper. They know that our nation will accept venal behavior and, in some cases, reward it with tremendous wealth and power. So why wouldnt they lie, cheat and steal?”

“Evil cannot be treated -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is in play. Society has no obligation to try to rehabilitate evil.”

“Conservative people tend to see the world in black and white terms, good and evil. Liberals see grays. In any talk format, you have to pound home a strong point of view. If youre not providing controversy and excitement, people wont listen, or watch.”

“Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private. Keep it private.”

“Ive been to Africa three times. All right? You cant bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you cant bring it into fundamental Islam.”

“Its hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell em theyre irresponsible and lazy. And whos gonna wanna do that? Because thats what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.”

“You want to have two guys making out in front of your 4-year-old? Its OK with them. A guy smoking a joint, blowing the smoke into your little kids face? OK with them. And Im not exaggerating here. This is exactly what the secular movement stands for.”

“As the tree is bent, so it will grow.”

“I am not going to let oppressive, totalitarian, anti- Christian forces in this country diminish and denigrate the holiday and the celebration.”

“Sometimes I say each. ... It doesnt really matter to me.”

“They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut.”

“This guy would have been executed in most countries.”

“Other interview news shows are guest-driven. The OReilly Factor is driven by me. I will not stand for spin. I look for guests who will stand up and verbally battle for what they believe in.”

“Parents have to be sane. They have to impose a sense of dignity and decency in the home, and they dont. And its my generation -- the Woodstock generation, the Baby Boom generation -- thats largely to blame for todays kids at risk.”

“This was a good thing for America. ... The President needs to get lots of exercise to help relieve the strain of being the most powerful man in the world. Mr. Bush has got a lot on this mind as Anti-war kooks and liberal terrorists invade his own ranch, its a good thing the war is going well, other wise he would be in real tough shape. Yep, the President needs to stay fit. We need a strong President. I would even bet that Mr. Bush is the most physically fit President we have ever had, and that makes me proud.”

“[As a final example, lets remember Jeremy Glick, whose father died in the World Trade Center. After his name appeared in an ad opposing war in Iraq, Mr. Glick was invited on] The Factor ... Im not going to dress you down anymore.”

“Wed save lives because Mexican wetbacks, whatever you want to call them, the coyotes--theyre not going to do what theyre doing now, all right, so people arent going to die in the desert.”

“George Clooneys pathetic attempts to bait me into a controversy in order to bring attention to his movie are simply cheap,”