Top 35 Jerry Springer Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Take care of yourselves, and each other.”

— Jerry Springer

2. “We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.”

— Jerry Springer

3. “I like the idea that there’s no censorship, because it’s consistent with my views that we live in a free society and people ought to be able to express their views.”

— Jerry Springer

4. “If you can’t be committed to another person, at least be committed to the concept of character and don’t cheat.”

— Jerry Springer

5. “You’re a transsexual fighting with a hermaphrodite over a mistress.”

— Jerry Springer

6. “Love is great for us, but we don’t always love who is great for us.”

— Jerry Springer

7. “Obviously I wanted to be a bus driver – and I still do. If only I could get a part time job.”

— Jerry Springer

8. “I should get a weekend show where all I do is play country music.”

— Jerry Springer

9. “With a face like mine, I do better in print.”

— Jerry Springer

10. “Vegetarianism is a good idea.”

— Jerry Springer

11. “You fight to defend a lover, not to win one. If you do, it isn’t love.”

— Jerry Springer

12. “It’s just a show. It’s not the end of Western Civilization. It’s chewing gum.”

— Jerry Springer

13. “I play a crazy talk-show host, but that’s not me. It’s like an actor playing a role.”

— Jerry Springer

14. “TV is a huge draw. It’s a magnet. Even when I was a policeman, if I was on a police scene and the news showed up, I’d race home to see if I would be on TV for 2 seconds!”

— Jerry Springer

15. “I treat politics kind of like my religion. It’s something I believe in, but I don’t want to have to make a living at it, because if you make a living at it, you somehow become dishonest.”

— Jerry Springer

16. “I’m a happy guy, but if I’m in a rare dark mood, I won’t go out because I don’t want to be horrible to people.”

— Jerry Springer

17. “I’m in shape, but only if you consider a circle a shape.”

— Jerry Springer

18. “The bias against the show is purely elitist. We’re all like the people on the show – the difference is that some of us speak better, or were born richer. There’s nothing that happens on my show that rich people don’t experience.”

— Jerry Springer

19. “Somewhere in the land, a monster lurked.”

— Jerry Springer

20. “Somebody once said I had a face for radio and a voice for newspapers.”

— Jerry Springer

21. “All of us, whether or not we’re celebrities, every one ought to spend part of their life making someone else’s life better.”

— Jerry Springer

22. “In one generation, my family went from extermination simply because of how they pray to God to this ridiculously privileged life I live today. So how can I not love America?”

— Jerry Springer

23. “My campaign is based upon the proposition that the answers to the problems which currently plague our cities, our towns, and our homes, are not to be found in the decisions in Washington. They are instead to be found in the hearts, minds and resources of our own people here at home.”

— Jerry Springer

24. “The overarching issue, as I see it, is the elitism of America’s political system; the fact that regular, ordinary Americans aren’t considered in policy debates or legislation, and regularly get shafted by the powers-that-be in Washington.”

— Jerry Springer

25. “We can’t just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.”

— Jerry Springer

26. “Country comes before politics.”

— Jerry Springer

27. “It’s hard thinking about Iraq at night when I’m dancing with transvestites in the afternoon.”

— Jerry Springer

28. “I can’t imagine anybody who has spoken to more, or presented more non-famous people on television in the history of the world.”

— Jerry Springer

29. “No one would have picked me out in high school and said, ‘This guy is going to be in show business.’ I don’t have any of the talents you would normally associate with show business.”

— Jerry Springer

30. “I’m not conflicted. Because I know. There’s me, and there’s the show.”

— Jerry Springer

31. “I’m liberal, but I watch the three majors. Obviously I watch MSNBC, also CNN and Fox, which is what I would call ridiculously to the right.”

— Jerry Springer

32. “My guess is more reporters probably vote Democrat than Republican – just because I think reporters are smart.”

— Jerry Springer

33. “To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different.”

— Jerry Springer

34. “I create this persona for the show. And that’s what it is. I’m an act.”

— Jerry Springer

35. “I don’t live in Hollywood. I don’t have celebrities as friends. I like them, but I don’t pal around with them. I just live in the Midwest, a real normal world.”

— Jerry Springer

36. “I knew early on that I would do politics, but I would never make a living at it. I would do something else.”

— Jerry Springer

37. “I watch sports and cable news. I’m a political junkie, so that’s my interest.”

— Jerry Springer