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  • The American public overwhelmingly regrets ObamaCare, our veterans are dying waiting to see doctors, the IRS intimidates conservative groups, the southern border is compared to a sieve and the president assures us not to worry - smiling, golfing and at this very moment partying... Because the fundraising never stops - not when four Americans die in Benghazi, and not when Baghdad is at the brink.

  • [Ben Carson] critics say that your inexperience shows. You've suggested that the Baltic States are not a part of NATO, you were unfamiliar with the major political parties and government in Israel, and domestically, you thought Alan Greenspan had been treasury secretary instead of federal reserve chair.

  • The way we do it on the Fox News Channel is the straight news anchors like us give a hard time to both sides.

  • I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, there is a message that if you are sexy and you acknowledge that part of your personality publicly, then it's somehow an affront to women. And I reject that.

  • I was badly bullied when I was in the seventh grade - relentlessly, mercilessly - by a group of 12-year-old girls. And it left me with a determination that no matter what, I had to throw my shoulders back, stick out my chin, and project a sense that no one and nothing could hurt me. That turned out to be a life-changing mistake.

  • So many people think that social studies and weird lessons in social studies, teaching kids in America are bad, is it the result of Common Core? And it's not. It's not. Common Core does not deal with social studies. It's basically writing and math.

  • Men should have more time with their newborn babies.

  • The truth is I don't watch a lot of news, except for when I'm here at the office watching Fox News. I get my news online primarily when I'm not watching the channel.

  • The problem with the law is that it's always there. There wasn't a vacation I took over the nine years I practiced - this was back in the dark ages - when I wasn't having faxes and FedExs literally sent to me on the beach in the Caribbean. I used to go on cruises not because I liked cruises, but because it was the one spot they couldn't get you.

  • Im a soulless lawyer. Give me any opinion and I can argue it.

  • Obviously, I'm in a visual business, and people will talk to me about my appearance.

  • I'm steeped in the news because I enjoy the news - I like reading papers, I like reading the blogs, I love talking to newsmakers and pundits, for that matter, about their opinions. I'm an information gatherer by nature, so that's what attracted me about this industry.

  • I have respect for my fellow journalists at the other networks, and I wish them all well. This is a tough business, so good for them.

  • Television is a service, but it's also a business.

  • Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn't happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage.

  • There are women who literally squeeze a baby out of their bodies or get cut open in major surgery, have a human being, the next generation of the human race pulled from their bodies, and within a couple of weeks have to go back to work, because if they don't, they can't pay their bills. Something's wrong with that.

  • I don't even watch Fox News usually in the prime time hours because I'm home with my kids and that's more important to me.

  • In another life - and as I like to say, another body - I used to teach aerobics.

  • Television can be a very fickle place

  • Jesus was a white man, too. Its like we have, hes a historical figure thats a verifiable fact, as is Santa, I just want kids to know that. How do you revise it in the middle of the legacy in the story and change Santa from white to black?

  • When I went to law school, which I put myself through for $100,000 dollars of debt, I didn't expect anybody to pay for my health insurance, which I had none of. No health insurance.

  • If you're wearing a pair of shoes that's a little flashy, then it's important not to be flashy up top and vice versa.

  • You defended your Medicaid expansion by invoking God.

  • Typically, you get a year in prison for making a threat to assassinate the president.

  • I - listen, racism - being a racist is the worst thing you can say about somebody. I mean, it is such a charged accusation. And I really think people should be very careful before they level that.

  • What is it about a baby bump that makes people feel it's okay to say things like, 'God! You are big!'

  • I have the humor of a 9-year-old boy, and sometimes I've had laughing fits on-air.

  • A lot of liberals don't believe in American exceptionalism, but it doesn't mean they don't love America.

  • Just because you might have a sparring match on the air doesn't mean there's any personal animosity.

  • I still don't consider myself a fashion girl.

  • I'm not a barbarian.

  • Fox News covers stories that some other news outlets won't cover. We ask some questions that other news outlets wouldn't ask. And sometimes that's perceived as bias by people who've grown up in a world where there are only liberal outlets.

  • I think people have an idea of what Fox News is. If people don't watch Fox News, then it's just a caricature, it's not real, they have it in their heads that it's something very different than what it actually is.

  • I have to tell you I enjoy Jon Stewart. That's the truth. I actually think he's very funny. I've paid to see him do his stand-up routine.

  • I remember thinking that I'd never show my arms on TV, but over time you loosen up.

  • Some things are worth the fat and calories, although I have to watch it like a hawk.

  • "The New York Times" is reporting correctly that women had accused a presidential candidate of sexual assault. Now that's news on any level. I mean you can't argue that that's not news.

  • [Donald Trump] is trying to stop immigration into the country from countries where there are major terrorist issues until we can figure out what is going on, but this seems like something else.

  • [Donald Trump] knows he's going to get hit, though. He's the president.

  • As a news person, you can't spend all your time responding to a Comedy Central star. It's not what we do.

  • As a person who's been in the professional world for some 25 years now, my experience is that the best core solution, the best solution for us as we change the structure, is to power through with great work product.

  • Before I got into TV, I wasn't fashionable at all.

  • Bullying can leave scars that do not heal.

  • By the way, Santa just is white.

  • Can we expect [Donald] Trump to have a thicker skin as president?

  • Donald Trump and the First Amendment - it's not a beautiful match. It's not a match made in heaven, you know, between the free speech rights that he has not defended and the freedom of the press which he has not defended. It's problematic.

  • Donald Trump has to be respected.

  • Donald Trump's numbers are historically low for a Republican nominee with women. Historically low.

  • Don't believe a thing unless you hear from me directly because there's a lot of bad info going on out there.

  • Either Trump would have lost and his supporters would have said, "Whatever." Or Trump would have won, and his supporters would say, "All right, whatever."

  • I believe an adult must intervene. You really have to. Kids just don't have the emotional maturity to deal with bullying and it can be extremely damaging; it can be life-changing. So I see that as a special thing that people need to be very careful in how they handle bullying.

  • I could have said some things about Hillary Clinton that would have been unfortunate for her, too. But I don't want to interfere.

  • I did not get a million-dollar or multimillion-dollar loan from my dad.

  • I did not grow up with silver spoon in my mouth.

  • I do feel fortunate to have some great options.

  • I do worry about the press and a President Trump. You know, I think it's dangerous the entire de-legitimization that he's engaged in against all of the media because the people, as much as it's fun to hate us, they do need us. You know, they need good, strong skeptical journalists to be covering whoever it is, whether it's Barack Obama or President Donald Trump.

  • I don't see myself as some television star, I see myself as a girl from Albany.

  • I don't think Donald Trump is an ideologue, so it's not really his policies that I think are going to maybe fire people up. It's his rhetoric and, you know, his willingness to wield power in a manner that can be potentially exploitative and dangerous.

  • I feel humbled by the fact that there's any interest in me at all.

  • I feel like I'm at a level in my business where I've established myself as a professional. And the one thing I haven't managed to do is find a way to achieve a better balance.

  • I have been attacked by media critics and just critics of my own for years. And that, unfortunately, is part of the job in 2016 America. I was used to that. And I've developed a thick skin.

  • I hear people say Donald Trump is going to destroy the country. The country's going to be changed forever. I don't know if I agree with that.

  • I mean, [Donald Trump] is going to get hit. He's going to get hit often. He's not going to like it. That's the way it works, you know.

  • I mean, the criticism of Donald Trump is that he could win this race, and that he was doing well and he was rebounding and his numbers in various states were rebounding - and then he went after Miss Universe and talked about her being too fat and talked about women's looks again, and women don't like that.

  • I send my kids to school not only to learn how to read and write and do math, but also to develop socially.

  • I still dont consider myself a fashion girl.

  • I think any reasonable person knows which reporters to eliminate.

  • I think Donald Trump is truly a populist.

  • I think that's a legitimate thing we're going to have to deal with and ask ourselves, you know, how far Donald Trump can go in enacting certain policies that target specific groups.

  • I think we have gone too far into the PC culture. But there's a limit to how far we can take that.

  • I think you can look at a woman's legs while she delivers the news and still take her seriously.

  • I want people to see the full measure of Donald Trump.

  • I want to see my kids for dinner, I want to put them down at night, I want to see their soccer games after school.

  • I was brought up in an environment to believe that my opinion was important, that I had something to say, and that it was no less powerful because I was young, a girl, at the time really unattractive, definitely not the smartest kid in the class.

  • If I were Sarah Palin, would I want to sit in an interview with someone who was secretly out to get me? Probably not.

  • If the popular thing to do is to say you have to ban flag burning, even if it ultimately means we're compromising a core principle of who we are as a republic, I don't think Donald Trump really thinks that that deeply into it.

  • If there's a negative interaction between my child and another child, what I want to know is, how was it handled, what lessons came out of it and of course, is my child okay?

  • If you don't believe in in-state tuition, you don't have a heart.

  • If you want to take off your journalist outfit and declare yourself a pundit and go argue against Donald Trump, go for it. But you can't wear both hats.

  • If you're going to take a shot at the king. You know, you'd better kill him.

  • If you're offended, what the Supreme Court has said the answer to speech you do not like is not less speech, it's more speech. There are many people in America who don't get that.

  • I'll beat up on Republicans and Democrats alike, and they don't like it.

  • I'm a struggling guitar player.

  • I'm not fascinated by sex, by I am fascinated by the protection of women and what we're getting in the Oval Office.

  • I'm used to politicians being angry with me, you know, because I don't work for them. I work for my viewers.

  • In fact, I lost my dad at a young age and had to put myself through school. I didn't have a lot of the advantages Donald Trump had but I had the most important ones you can get, which are loving parents who cared about me and helped me develop a sense of self. But it certainly wasn't Donald Trump's doing.

  • It's very easy for some men and in some cases women to sit back and say with 20-20 hindsight, "Tsk-tsk, should have done more." But it doesn't account for the reality.

  • Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn't mean it has to change,

  • Kellyanne Conway, been one of his most successful advisers, his most successful. Certainly the highest profile women associated with his campaign. Has he offered you a position?

  • Look at Donald Trump: He loves to call out individual reporters by name, which leads to major problems in those reporters' lives. I certainly don't want to add to that myself.

  • Mitt Romney's numbers are crushing Donald Trump's numbers with women. Crushing them.

  • Mr. [Donald] Trump has every right to say that didn't happen.

  • People lie all the time in their divorce proceedings, especially when custody is an issue.

  • Reagan Republicans do not criticize the other Republicans

  • Secretary of state, now they're saying it's between Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani, which has a lot of our viewers saying, how could Mitt Romney even be in the running given how loyal Rudy Giuliani was to Mr. Trump. And even if you might like Mitt Romney, he was not loyal and in fact he savaged Trump during the primary.

  • Since announcing his candidacy in June of 2015, Donald Trump morphed into a national phenomenon, captivating the country, dominating news cycles day in and day out and creating a white hot debate about our national media like nothing we have seen in a long, long time.

  • So if we cover [Donald Trump] the same way, let's say "The Kelly File," we cover him the same way we cover Barack Obama, the same amount, the same skeptical eye, he's going to be fine with that.

  • Somebody saying something offensive to you, or insulting to you, is not pleasant, but it's part of life. And my belief is we need to shore ourselves up, and our kids up and our younger generation up to understand how to deal with that unpleasant reality, because we won't always be there to protect them. And you know, I for one want my own kids to know how to handle that.

  • Sometimes I look around cable news and it's like you wonder whether you're looking at anchors or authors.

  • Steve Bannon has quoted as lamenting the fact that he predicts a "Fox News" that will be more centrist in the future. He came after our boss Rupert Murdoch in some unflattering terms.

  • Steve Bannon, too, needs to be a unifier, doesn't he, as the senior adviser.

  • Television is a tough business. It's not that easy to jump shops.

  • The Fox News anchors are lovely. They have an incredible combination of brains and beauty. And I think that's one of the reasons people love watching them and listening to them.

  • The interesting thing is it's outside the statute of limitations for a civil suit by Leeds. It's actually is not outside of the statute of limitations under the criminal side. Because it occurred on an airplane and federal law doesn't have a statute of limitations I know off for that particular offense.

  • The more you lecture those running the companies on how they need to give more breaks to women or other minority groups and be more open-minded to their work products and perhaps question themselves on a double standard, the more some of those people shut down to your messaging. I'm not saying it's right; I'm just saying you can very easily get labeled as someone who sees everything through a prism of race or gender or what have you. So we have to walk a fine line. It's sad but it's the truth.

  • The one that sticks out in my mind and has all along was the New York Times piece on Melania Trump.Calling her a mannequin and a trophy wife, which if anybody had ever said that about any - Michelle Obama was a lawyer. But Melania Trump has been a successful businesswoman. She speaks several languages. A mannequin and a trophy wife and it was just - fine, they were allowed to say that about her.

  • The reason to have more racial diversity on any team is because it's helpful to have different perspectives on any issue. And I also believe that. It's easier said than done, unfortunately.

  • The relative lack of power of certain minority groups and the fear they're feeling in the wake of Donald Trump's election I think is is something we really need to take a look at because while I don't think Trump wants to target any particular minority group, I understand their fear because he spent many months stoking it.

  • The string of accusations being made against [Donald] Trump are raising new legal questions about some of these cases. Could actually be considered criminal sexual assault.

  • Then to the victor go the spoils. You rise up by lifting, you know, each other up. You win. And so isn't this the time to be magnanimous like Donald Trump is and not to be, you know, predicting or projecting on to the press how they must cover him. They're going to cover him how they see fit.

  • There are lots of people who are red-carpet types, but that's not me.

  • There is a point where litigious becomes frivolous. And when you file frivolous lawsuits you can be hit by sanctions. I don't see the basis for suing "The New York Times." Ironically, it was "The New York Times" that was the plaintiff in "The New York Times" versus Sullivan.

  • There was only one person who I shared everything with, and that was my husband.

  • There's no question that to some extent there are structural disadvantages built in, not just for women but for other minority groups who don't hold power at the executive level either at the company or in the industry. My position is not just "Oh, okay, anyone can overcome those." It's just as we work to get more women and people in minority groups at higher levels in positions of power, what are our options?

  • These women [abused by Donald Trump] certainly do have seen the statute of limitations expire. But if he attacks these women, they can allege defamation of their own .

  • This is America. We're allowed to draw whatever we want.

  • Upon graduation, go out into the world and try to find yourself. What do I mean by that? Read Socrates, no. Get a job? Not yet. Go out and do some crazy stuff. Don't hurt anybody including yourself, but take some risks. Travel a little bit. Make big mistakes that you have to apologize for. Do stuff that will make you relatable to the world. And whatever jobs you settle into, you will be better at it, for it.

  • Usually state laws refer to touching intimate parts, it can be breasts or buttocks.

  • We don't do that kind of thing, we don't create registries based on religion.

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