Top 88 Quotes & Sayings by Jane Velez-Mitchell

There are definitions of morbid obesity. Doctors define it.

She gets away with it. Everybody co-signs her bad behavior. It's like we all are co-dependent on Lindsay Lohan. When are we going to stand up to her?

We have secrets, and we have the same secrets that criminals have. Sometimes the only difference between a criminal and a law-abiding citizen is that somebody found out the criminal's secret.

How is justice served if the victim and the accused are working together to make it all go away? Somebody please explain that to me.

Family issues and a failing career would be enough to consume most young actresses.

Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.

Agribusiness - with its wicked powerful lobby and its infiltration of top bureaucratic posts - essentially runs roughshod over the government agencies that are supposed to monitor it. It's the rich fox guarding the filthy, overcrowded henhouse.

We have been brainwashed into craving a diet that is killing us. What we believe tastes good is generally what we have been socially conditioned to enjoy.

I say, do not mess with Oprah. The one person in America you shouldn't mess with.

There's no constitutional right for your parents to pay for college.

I think everybody who commits a violent killing is in some way crazy. But that doesn't mean we can let them off the hook for that.

There is a severe horse overpopulation crisis caused by overbreeding in the racing industry. It's time for that industry to accept responsibility for its castoffs and take dramatic action to protect a species that has so loyally served humankind.

Why are kids being inundated with food that is not good for them, when we're suffering from an obesity crisis? Is the U.S. government talking out of both sides of its mouth, promoting bad food while telling us not to eat it?

Fame is often called a deal with the devil. Reality show fame is a really bad deal with the devil.

I say getting a lecturing from Oprah is probably the most terrifying lecture you could possibly get.

In Hollywood, they say good news finds you.

Bolivia recently did what every country should do - banned the use of animals in circuses.

I love 'Scandal.' It's my favorite show - it's really - the only one I really watch.

Go ahead, weathercasters and reporters: Tell Americans precisely what we don't want to hear: namely, that our self-indulgent, carbon-heavy, gluttonous and disposable lifestyle is precisely what is churning up the angry response from the skies and seas.

I would love to speak with First Lady Michelle Obama about the addictive component of obesity.

If you say no to cruel factory farm practices, only then will the government say yes to change.

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

Every decision we make - when we choose a vehicle, when we pump gas into that vehicle, when we order food - is not just a personal lifestyle choice. It's an environmental and moral choice.

I say peace begins on your plate.

Meat production is one of the leading causes of climate change because of the destruction of the rainforest for grazing lands, the massive amounts of methane produced by farm animals and the huge amounts of water, grain and other resources required to feed animals.

Cholesterol does not exist in vegetables. Vegetables do not clog arteries.

We have got to stop being a society that turns our heads and looks the other way.

There's no better feeling in the world than knowing that my show played a role in stopping animal abuse or alleviating animal suffering.

I love working with PETA.

McDonald's says it's phasing out pig gestation crates. When I heard that news, I almost started crying.

The worst environmental decision you can make as a human being is to have 14 kids.

Child Protective Services, all over the country, need to be revamped top to bottom.

The government sends low-flying helicopters to chase the horses into corrals and then takes them from the plains of the American West to federal holding pens. The government claims it's to save the horses from starvation. Critics claim the real motive is to clear the land for cattle grazing. Critics also say the horses are brutally traumatized.

Something is sick with our society that we have to deal with.

There's no excuse in a technological age where we've got drones - you know, overhead, and we can monitor anything, all sorts of minutia - that we can't track living flesh-and-blood children.

Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?

Jodi Arias had a deadly obsession with Travis Alexander.

Travis Alexander was a good guy. Was he a saint? No. But he was somebody who was really, really invested in helping other people and making this world a better place. Everything he did, even the car he drove, was a sign of him trying to be a force for good in this world.

I've bought perfectly healthy horses for a couple of hundred dollars just as they were about to be loaded on a slaughterhouse-bound truck.

It was gross enough for fast food restaurants to ban, but apparently our government wants so-called pink slime to be a staple in your kids' lunches.

A study, by its very nature, is an abstraction.

A breeding sow spends most of her life in a tiny cage. It's usually about seven feet long and two feet wide. She cannot turn around. She cannot scratch herself. She must urinate and defecate where she stands. Simply put, I believe she is tortured, day in and day out.

Every day, it seems, a new extreme weather catastrophe happens somewhere in America, and the media's all over it, profiling the ordinary folks wiped out by forest fires, droughts, floods, massive sinkholes, tornadoes.

The myriad of serious health risks resulting from poor diet include high cholesterol, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, and even sleep apnea.

I've studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that's one of the reasons they're so convincing, because they have no connection with the truth. It's a dead issue. It's like they're color-blind to the truth. So anything that comes out of their mouths is their reality.

Capture of a wild animal is invariably traumatic.

Now, Spitzer was an anti-crime crusader cracking down on prostitution and Wall Street corruption. So some people were looking to take him down.

Denial is a very powerful thing.

It's time for compassionate Americans to send a wake-up call to their members of Congress and demand passage of legislation to end the wholesale slaughter of America's horses once and for all.

I dream of a post-racial society that is not categorized by the color of their skin.

In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skills, which will help children cope with issues like rejection and sexuality later in life.

USDA says pink slime, which is made of cow connective tissue and other scraps and then treated with ammonia to kill the salmonella, e Coli, potentially, the U.S. Government says it's totally safe.

What does animal welfare have to do with food safety? The animals are the food! They are living in their own excrement, developing horrific sores, stressed out, and, therefore, more vulnerable to illness and disease.

I do believe that Jodi Arias shows a lot of signs of mental illness.

Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV.

Obesity affects every aspect of a people's lives, from health to relationships.

Honestly is always an option, even when you don't think it is.

Public downfalls are more painful and humiliating than private ones.

In 2007, Lindsay Lohan seemed to be on top of the world, a bona fide star who had her pick of acting gigs. But it wasn't long before the veneer cracked, and Lindsay's life began to shatter.

Where do thoroughbreds go after they lose one too many races, throw one too many riders, or develop a limp? Many thousands of thoroughbreds end up being slaughtered for horse meat. The unpleasant truth is horse meat is eaten in Europe and Asia.