Top 50 Megyn Kelly Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Winners take responsibility. Losers blame others.”

— Megyn Kelly

2. “Then, one night, her guest, Dr. Phil, said something that made me drop my fork: “The only difference between you and someone you envy is, you settled for less.” It.”

— Megyn Kelly

3. “So many people think that social studies and weird lessons in social studies, teaching kids in America are bad, is it the result of Common Core? And it’s not. It’s not. Common Core does not deal with social studies. It’s basically writing and math.”

— Megyn Kelly

4. “I was brought up in an environment to believe that my opinion was important, that I had something to say, and that it was no less powerful because I was young, a girl, at the time really unattractive, definitely not the smartest kid in the class.”

— Megyn Kelly

5. “The truth is I don’t watch a lot of news, except for when I’m here at the office watching Fox News. I get my news online primarily when I’m not watching the channel.”

— Megyn Kelly

6. “Television is a service, but it’s also a business.”

— Megyn Kelly

7. “I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say ‘feminist’ now, there is a message that if you are sexy and you acknowledge that part of your personality publicly, then it’s somehow an affront to women. And I reject that.”

— Megyn Kelly

8. “There are lots of people who are red-carpet types, but that’s not me.”

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9. “Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn’t happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage.”

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10. “I have the humor of a 9-year-old boy, and sometimes I’ve had laughing fits on-air.”

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11. “Obviously, I’m in a visual business, and people will talk to me about my appearance.”

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12. “Jesus was a white man, too. Its like we have, hes a historical figure thats a verifiable fact, as is Santa, I just want kids to know that. How do you revise it in the middle of the legacy in the story and change Santa from white to black?”

— Megyn Kelly

13. “The way we do it on the Fox News Channel is the straight news anchors like us give a hard time to both sides.”

— Megyn Kelly

14. “I love my job and the excitement and challenges it offers. But my job does not define me. If this job ended tomorrow I’d find another way to find that glorious feeling of accomplishment. No employer or career choice “made” me. I made me...”

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15. “When I was in 10th grade, I took one of those tests that’s supposed to tell you what you should be when you grow up. The test told me that I should be a journalist.”

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16. “Im a soulless lawyer. Give me any opinion and I can argue it.”

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17. “I’m a struggling guitar player.”

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18. “I have respect for my fellow journalists at the other networks, and I wish them all well. This is a tough business, so good for them.”

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19. “A lot of liberals don’t believe in American exceptionalism, but it doesn’t mean they don’t love America.”

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20. “I’m the worst tweeter ever. I don’t know what I’m doing. I really don’t.”

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21. “When I went to law school, which I put myself through for $100,000 dollars of debt, I didn’t expect anybody to pay for my health insurance, which I had none of. No health insurance.”

— Megyn Kelly

22. “I don’t even watch Fox News usually in the prime time hours because I’m home with my kids and that’s more important to me.”

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23. “What I don’t like is talking points.”

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24. “Some things are worth the fat and calories, although I have to watch it like a hawk.”

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25. “You know, I was not an attractive child – I never had a cute face.”

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26. “I mean, Jesus was a white man too. He was a historical figure – that’s a verifiable fact.”

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27. “If I were Sarah Palin, would I want to sit in an interview with someone who was secretly out to get me? Probably not.”

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28. “I’m steeped in the news because I enjoy the news – I like reading papers, I like reading the blogs, I love talking to newsmakers and pundits, for that matter, about their opinions. I’m an information gatherer by nature, so that’s what attracted me about this industry.”

— Megyn Kelly

29. “I – listen, racism – being a racist is the worst thing you can say about somebody. I mean, it is such a charged accusation. And I really think people should be very careful before they level that.”

— Megyn Kelly

30. “But if something that was good morphs into something that’s not good – and is not changing back – one has to stay conscious of that too. Settling for more is not an endgame – it’s an active process. It means staying aware of one’s surroundings, because “more” is a fluid concept. Life changes, and requires that we change too.”

— Megyn Kelly

31. “Money removes many stressors, but it has not changed my level of happiness, nor who I am. It changes how I spend my time. Right.”

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32. “Television can be a very fickle place.”

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33. “If you don’t believe in in-state tuition, you don’t have a heart.”

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34. “Reagan Republicans do not criticize the other Republicans.”

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35. “I think people have an idea of what Fox News is. If people don’t watch Fox News, then it’s just a caricature, it’s not real, they have it in their heads that it’s something very different than what it actually is.”

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36. “Typically, you get a year in prison for making a threat to assassinate the president.”

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37. “Fox News covers stories that some other news outlets won’t cover. We ask some questions that other news outlets wouldn’t ask. And sometimes that’s perceived as bias by people who’ve grown up in a world where there are only liberal outlets.”

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38. “If you’re wearing a pair of shoes that’s a little flashy, then it’s important not to be flashy up top and vice versa.”

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39. “You defended your Medicaid expansion by invoking God.”

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40. “In another life – and as I like to say, another body – I used to teach aerobics.”

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41. “I remember thinking that I’d never show my arms on TV, but over time you loosen up.”

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42. “Men should have more time with their newborn babies.”

— Megyn Kelly

43. “It’s never too soon to start the life you want.”

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44. “Before I got into TV, I wasn’t fashionable at all.”

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45. “I have to tell you I enjoy Jon Stewart. That’s the truth. I actually think he’s very funny. I’ve paid to see him do his stand-up routine.”

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46. “But spending your life pretending you are something other than what you are is unsustainable.”

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47. “I believe in the right to offend. To insult. Even to horrify. It’s not that we’re supposed to enjoy it; it’s that we’re supposed to allow it and then respond in a more persuasive voice. That’s the bedrock of the First Amendment – the answer to speech you do not like is not less speech, it’s more speech. In.”

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48. “Most of my own power has come from excellence, not advocacy. My approach is to say to myself, ‘Just do better. Be better.’ That’s not to say there’s no bias, no sexism. There is, and it’s not good. It’s just that for me, the solution of doing better is far more empowering than lamenting one’s circumstances.”

— Megyn Kelly

49. “Diane is my spiritual guide. She is a Duke- and Harvard-educated oyster fisherman in Cape Cod. Now there’s something you don’t hear every day. Like Jackie and Doug, she does not seek the spotlight.”

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50. “If Dad was disappointed in us, we felt shame deep in our souls, and if Mom was mad, we felt it somewhere else. We.”

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