Geraldo Rivera Quotes

• Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn’t matter if you’re brown, back or white.

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  Tags in Performance

• 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.

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  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Human, Dimension

• When a Spanish man cries it’s not a sign of weakness.

  Geraldo Rivera

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  Tags in Spanish, Man

• 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.

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  Tags in People, Compassionate

• 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.

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  Tags in War, Compassionate

• 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.

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  Tags in Self, Thinking, Population

• The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen… with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers.

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  Tags in Dancer

• 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.

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  Tags in Media, Reputation, Circulation

• The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.

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  Tags in Journalism, Courage

• The biggest stories in 2005 were the national disasters.

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  Tags in National, Disasters

• 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.

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  Tags in Self, Night, Live

• Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn’t get federal subsidies. If you want to stay there, take the risk.

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  Tags in People, Federal, Subsidies

• Reject racial or religious hate. Embrace moderate Islam.

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  Tags in Religious, Hate

• 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.

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  Tags in Palestinian, Population

• 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?

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  Tags in Ourselves, Working

• Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Topics in Job

• 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.

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  Topics in Children

  Tags in Interesting

• It’s a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics.

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  Tags in Critics, Pleasure

• 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.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Television, Audience

• I’m tired of getting made fun of.

  Geraldo Rivera

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  Tags in Self, Tired

Geraldo Rivera (31)

Birth:	4th July, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist, Lawyer, Talk Show Host

About

Gerald Michael Rivera, better known as Geraldo Rivera was born in New York City, New York, USA. He is an American lawyer, journalist, and talk show host. In 1965, he graduated with a B.S. degree in business administration from the University of Arizona. He received his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 1969. He was hired by WABC-TV in 1970 as a reporter for Eyewitness News. He began to appear on ABC national programs such as 20/20 and Nightline. He also began hosting ABC's Good Night America. He was the host of the talk show Geraldo from 1987 to 1998. He hosted the newsmagazine program Geraldo at Large, hosts the occasional broadcast of Geraldo Rivera Reports, and appears regularly on Fox News Channel programs such as The Five.

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