Top 299 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Hosts

The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of feeling safe under someone else's authority. The concept of self-sufficiency has been undermined in value over a scant few generations. The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society.

Say something idiotic and nobody but a dog politely wags his tail.

I hate the confessional. I love leaving the confessional. I hate going to the confessional. I would be a mess without it.

In the 24 hours since this time yesterday, over 200,000 acres of rainforest have been destroyed in our world. Fully 13 million tons of toxic chemicals have been released into our environment. Over 45,000 people have died from starvation, 38,000 of them children. And more than 130 plant and animal species have been driven to extinction by the actions of humans. And all this just since yesterday.

This is for one simple reason: each Islamic mosque is dedicated to the overthrow of the American government.

Books are a staircase to unknown worlds.

My analysis is that most faith based systems depend upon an absolute moral order. The declaration of things as absolutely evil or absolutely good, as sin or virtue, puts liberalism into a horrible position because it's founded on no judgment on anything. As a result, any faith that is seriously practiced or understood is a challenge to the politics that depend on constituencies that would rather not be told that their choices are bad and their lives are not virtuous.

Lobbying is the world's second - oldest profession.

Your ability to make things happen is what makes you different

Feminism means to me being comfortable with who you are as a woman and being unapologetic about it.

I would rather be loved by millions and hated by the same number rather than moderately liked by everyone.

A man can be beaten in two ways, if he gives up or he dies.

A religion that doesn't discriminate wouldn't exist, because it wouldn't stand for anything.

At one time, I hated the iPhone - but that was only before I used one for the first time.

Life should be all about change. But some things shouldn't change. And my three-piece suits are one of those things.

You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses.

A balanced life is like a three legged stool. Each leg - nutrition, fitness and wellness- is necessary and supports the other.

Falling in love is like eating mushrooms, you never know if it's the real thing until it's too late.

Food insecurity and hunger are serious threats to children's health, growth, and development. The idea of not being able to put plentiful, nutritious food on the table for my girls is a horrifying thought.

Being accepted by the world is the worst thing that can happen to the Church.

The Baby Boom has spawned an even bigger Grandma Boom. For every baby born, two women turn into grandmas.

The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow from knowing that you've just done something as well as you can do it.

Science gets more fun when I get a bigger gun!

Your freedom to be you includes my freedom to be free from you.

Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth; having hearts that are never moved and therefore never set on fire. These are the things to fear, said the headmaster.

Concerning anti-Christian Bigotry, the mass media in our nation relentlessly attack anything that even remotely champions morality or Judeo-Christian values.

There is no way to greatness. Greatness is the way.

Ron Paul warned everyone that the Patriot Act could be used against innocent American citizens. His critics said he was siding with terrorists. Now, either A. Ron Paul was right. Or B. All Verizon users are terrorists.

So let me get this straight. Government can't track illegals and out of date visas, but they know who you called this morning?

You really have to examine how long you are going to live in the house; budget and then you have to come up with a plan that fits within all of those things. Then you have to stop, sit down and stare at that plan for a couple of months, take your time and live with it in your mind. Once you've got your budget, plan it.

Obviously, we will respond to the concerns of any member of Congress. The government of Uzbekistan has been a good partner in the war on terrorism.

The history of a people are found in its songs.

Never love anything that can't love you back.

We can understand that people, seeing this anti-charter slander by certain media, end up thinking ‘Oh God, am I right to support the charter? Am I a good person?’ Well, yes, you are a good person, ladies and gentlemen, you’re part of the majority of people who want a charter.

When you're on MTV Asia, you're like royalty. When you walk down the streets of the Philippines or Indonesia, everyone wants to try to touch you.

If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people.

It's strange how death mocks us, that only in death do we cherish [the ones we love].

I do not believe the accusations against my husband, not for one second.

Shift your frame of reference. Realise that all you see around you, ­the reality we perceive­, is a small stage upon which you act, and within it is an inner spaciousness that is infinite. Let's now explore the infinite.

I know I look like a piece of sausage to those lions. A sausage with braids.

Being a lady is an attitude.

The beauty of TV is that it does not have to be live. In this case, rather than spending an hour or two hours staring at a door and waiting for somebody to come out, we can just tell you after it has happened.

Everything in my life comes up a little shorter than I want it to be. I've got all these high aspirations for myself, my career and my faith and it would come up not even close to what I want it to be.

If personal safety means discrimination, then I'm all for it.

Many people I've met believe that plants are made up of soil-that the tree outside your house, for example, is mostly made from the soil in which it grew. That's a common mistake. That tree is mostly made up of one of the gases in our air (carbon dioxide) and water (hydrogen and oxygen). Trees are solidified air and sunlight.

Maturity gives us jealous eyes. We look with jealousy on the younger woman because she doesn't know as much now as we do, and, oh, what we could do with our wisdom and her face.

Unfortunately, we don't have a depth of African scriptwriters, so it's easier to Africanize something that already works. Local script writers are giving me James Bond budget scenes that I can't even produce.

Passwords are like underwear: you don’t let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn’t share it with strangers.

I am a living soap opera.

We discussed relationships, abuse, divorce and more. In our society, women have no outlet for these things. The only outlet is the church. And the church can't handle everything. I saw a gap.

There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop but appear to stop many times before they actually do.

Energy is always paramount when hosting a live show, because you need every synapse firing, so you can think fast on your feet.

The technologies for the alternative energy sources exists today. The economics are compelling. The public health is compelling. Why would we maintain a focus on a 17th-century technology, when there are 21st-century alternatives that are both necessary and available? And the answer is the subversion of democracy.

Committee meetings are always held at inconvenient times and usually take place in dark, dusty rooms the temperatures of which are unsuited to the human body.

When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.

Black Friday, in reality, is a symptom of the plight that 30 years of Reaganomics has brought to working people in America. Right along with the frenzied rise of shoppers willing to fight each other at retail outlets across America, we've been steadily, for the last 30 years, watching the destruction of organized labor ... of decent pay and wages and conditions for working people. ... We have Black Friday today because the wealthy elite have strangled their workers for 32 years, ever since Ronald Reagan's election.

Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and spend time with the characters we give life to.

I have the best of both worlds. I can talk about Taylor Swift during the day, and at night I can sit in front of the TV and watch Thursday night football. At some point, if the two converge and it becomes one job where I can still talk about both, that would be amazing.

These are facts that would make every American upset. Our birthright is being stolen, the legacy of our country is at stake, and the values of our nation are in peril. The future whispers, and the present shouts.