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• We'll do it live... WE'LL DO IT LIVE! FUCK IT! DO IT LIVE... look, I'll write it and we'll do it live! Fucking thing SUCKS!
  • offhand remark to cameraman on the set of Inside Edition, late 1980s - early 1990s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tJjNVVwRCY

• The 'shut up' line has happened only once in six years.
  • responding to a viewer who said if he was so concerned about public figures being bad role models for children, he should stop interrupting guests and telling them to shut up, Nov. 15, 2002 (Watch video of O'Reilly telling various guests to shut up) http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/billoreilly/a/http%20http://www.slate.com/id/2087706/

• I'll tell you what. I've been in combat. I've seen it, I've been close to it... and if my unit is in danger, and I've got a captured guy, and the guy knows where the enemy is, and I'm looking him in the eye, the guy better tell me. That's all I'm gonna tell you. The guy better tell me. If it's life or death, he's going first."
  • on his experience as a journalist covering firefights in South and Central America, Jan. 18, 2005 http://skinthefox.com/news_003.htm

• I couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's Restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks. Especially the black patrons: there wasn't one person shouting, "Hey, m'fer, I want more iced tea."
  • on his meal with Al Sharpton at Sylvia's in Harlem; The O'Reilly Factor, 9-24-07

• CNN has gone to the dark side.
  • in response to CNN's playing a tape of his surprise at Sylvia's Restaurant being like "any other restaurant in New York"; The O'Reilly Factor, 9-25-07

• Winston Churchill said that democracy was the worst possible form of government, except for all the others. Maybe we can say the same about capitalism. For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few... Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy.
  • The O'Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, and the Completely Ridiculous in American Life (2000), unidentified page
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    • I just wish Katrina had only hit the United Nations building, nothing else, just had flooded them out, and I wouldn't have rescued them."
      • The Radio Factor, 14 September 2005
    
    
    • Like a brain surgeon who drinks a martini when he's not on call, the successful kids in your school may smoke pot on occasion, but they are not stoners
      • O'Reilly Factor for Kids (2004), page 67
    
    
    • If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush Administration again, all right?"
      • on finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, March 18, 2003 http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/billoreilly/a/http%20http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-10.htm
    
    
    • I was wrong. I am not pleased about it at all and I think all Americans should be concerned about this… What do you want me to do, go over and kiss the camera?
      • In response to a request to make good on his 18 March 2003 promise to publicly apologize if weapons of mass destruction were not found in Iraq
      • Good Morning America, 10 February 2004
    
    
    • There is no question that Whoopi Goldberg's foolish comments at a John Kerry fundraiser hurt Kerry — who had no idea how to handle the situation. Chevy Chase should have learned from that. Even he has to know that calling the president of the United States an "F" is not going to be accepted by most Americans. Now you don't see this kind of thing on the right. You don't see prominent conservatives cursing out Democratic members of Congress, for example. Now I know talk radio can get rough but nothing like what these Hollywood nitwits are throwing out there.
    
    
    • Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting, you're not going to get another nickel in federal funds. Fine. You want to be your own country? Go right ahead. And if Al-Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.
      • 8 November 2005; in an August 2007 interview with Chris Dodd on The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly denied he ever said this quote and called Dodd a "propagandist" for bringing up the quote and told Dodd he has no respect for him.
    
    
    • I'm not buying this. If, if you're eleven years old, or twelve years old, thirteen, and you have a strong bond with your family, OK. Even if the guy [kidnapper] threatens you - this and that. ... If you can get away, you get away.
      • The O'Reilly Factor, 15 January 2007
    
    
    • You know, look, if I could strangle these people and not go to hell and get executed, I would, but I can't.
      • of people who criticize him, The Radio Factor, September 27, 2007
    
    
    • Many parents are worried in America about the gay agenda and indoctrination of their children to see homosexuality in a certain way.
      • October 26, 2007; see Mackris lawsuit quote below, expressing contrary attitude on homosexuality indoctrination
    
    
    • America today is a confused society, caught up in a terror war, a culture war, and a media war, where honesty and professional standards have vanished.
      • The O'Reilly Factor, 23 March 2007
    
    
    • It‘s all coming from the haters on the far left. Just throw it in the garbage. But the regular folks who really enjoy this program, what we want you to ask, Laurie, is why do we do things? Why do we do them?
      • explaining to his ombudsman, Laurie Dhue, what to do about mail complaining about the low quality of Fox News Channel material; November 2007 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21771581/
    
    
    • On the pinhead front, 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant. The sister of Britney says she is shocked. I bet. Now most teens are pinheads in some ways. But here the blame falls primarily on the parents of the girl, who obviously have little control over her....
      • "Talking Points" column published at Fox News website, December 20, 2007 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317577,00.html
    
    
    • Millions of American families are dealing with teenage pregnancy...It is true that some Americans will judge Governor Palin and her family. There's nothing anyone can do about it.
      • "Talking Points" column published at Fox News website September 3, 2008 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,416001,00.html
    
    
    • All this is beyond me, I had trouble with Lincoln... Inside Edition 1988 http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1712418
    
    

    Quotes about O'Reilly

    • O'Reilly is the ultimate spinmeister, the consummate propagandist. And as they teach in Propaganda 101, the first argument of the successful propagandist is to claim that what you are doing is telling the straight truth, while everyone with whom you disagree is doctoring their story to cover up their flaws. In O'Reilly's case, the "no-spin" zone is a place where most Republicans get treated with kid gloves, while their adversaries are raked over the coals.
      • Robert W. McChesney, in
        
        • On or about March 9-13, 2003, defendant Bill O‘Reilly joined plaintiff Andrea Mackris and other staff members at the Peninsula Hotel for cocktails. Plaintiff Andrea Mackris‘ college friend was with her. O‘Reilly approached the two and commented, ‘University of Missouri, boy, I would have had fun with you,” and alluded to having a menage a trios with plaintiff and her friend.
          • Item 40 from lawsuit by his former producer Andrea Mackris; Countdown
        • On or about May 2003, defendant Bill O‘Reilly took plaintiff Andrea Mackris and her college friend to dinner. O‘Reilly repeatedly propositioned the women, suggesting that the three of them ‘go to a hotel together and have the time of their lives.‘
          • Item 41 from lawsuit by his former producer Andrea Mackris; Countdown