Top 75 Quotes & Sayings by Geraldo Rivera

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American journalist Geraldo Rivera.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Geraldo Rivera

Geraldo Rivera is an American journalist, attorney, author, political commentator, and former television host. He hosted the tabloid talk show Geraldo from 1987 to 1998. He gained publicity with the live TV special The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults. Rivera hosted the news magazine program Geraldo at Large, hosts the occasional broadcast of Geraldo Rivera Reports, and appears regularly on Fox News programs such as The Five.

I'm old, but I'm still cute and strong. And very butch.
Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn't get federal subsidies. If you want to stay there, take the risk.
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.
The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen... with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers. — © Geraldo Rivera
The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen... with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers.
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.
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.
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.
Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white.
Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants.
I'd like to give divorce a good name.
I think of myself as Special Forces, clearing the path for the infantry.
I'm tired of getting made fun of.
I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.
I am enduring. You can disagree with me.
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.
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.
The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular. — © Geraldo Rivera
The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.
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.
I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.
When a Spanish man cries it's not a sign of weakness.
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.
Reject racial or religious hate. Embrace moderate Islam.
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?
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.
It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics.
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.
Give Hamas 90 days to pick a lane, then react.
The biggest stories in 2005 were the national disasters.
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 must be doing something right. I've been around for a long time.
Jackson and I spent the day together, just me and him and his children. Little underlings came and went. The P.R. person came and went... It was just Michael and me and the kids. And it was very, very interesting.
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.
If I've done anything, I've brought passion to television.
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.
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 think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin's death as George Zimmerman was.
The biggest stories in 2005 were the national disasters
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.
Latinos are just like everybody else. There are conservatives. There are moderates. There are liberals. — © Geraldo Rivera
Latinos are just like everybody else. There are conservatives. There are moderates. There are liberals.
I'm tired of getting made fun of. The reason I took on The New York Times as ferociously as I did is that I'm tired of being the little icon that people stick pins in, the whipping boy for everything that's gone wrong in this business. Whatever my excess, I think that I've been trumped in many areas by others.
The Jewish people, for their tiny numbers, have done superbly. They don't need me. They have Einstein. They have everybody - Maury Povich.
There is no doubt in my view that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee.
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.
If you think is was an accident, applaud.
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
Being a president is being a CEO, essentially.
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 am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies.
It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics
I would argue [Donald]Trump is the [Barack] Obama of this election cycle.
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 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. — © Geraldo Rivera
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.
Am I the only one who thinks Nancy Grace's relentless cheer leading for Jodi Arias' death gross & excessive? The anchor as executioner?!
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.
Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants
There are plenty of towns in America where the 4-year-old has shot his 2-year-old sister by using daddy's gun.
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.
Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years.
I think the Jews need me right now.
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