Jerry Springer

"Life is what it is, and you take whats handed, and you work as hard as you can, and hopefully youll be successful, but I just dont spend too much time worrying about that. I do my show and Ive always said its a stupid show, and Ive had a wonderful life because of it and all that, but Ive never for a second thought that its important. Its trivial. Its chewing gum. I recognize that. Once you do something thats significant in life, all this other stuff is just a way to eat."

"I opposed the war in Iraq because I did not believe it was in our national security interest, and I still dont. What we did was akin to taking a baseball bat to a beehive. Our primary security threat right now is terrorism ---and by doing what we did in Iraq, weve managed to alienate a good part of the world and most of the allies whose intelligence and other help we need to combat and defeat terrorism."

"The GNP by itself is no mark of our national achievement. For it includes smokestacks that pollute, drugs that destroy, and ambulances which clear our highways of human wreckage. It includes a muggers knife, a rioters bomb, and Oswalds rifle, but if the GNP tells us all this, there is much that it does not tell us. It says nothing about the health of our families, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play."

"Showbiz is a job. I never take it too seriously. I work hard, but I never pretend it’s life or death. I’m just incredibly lucky."

"The overarching issue, as I see it, is the elitism of Americas political system; the fact that regular, ordinary Americans arent considered in policy debates or legislation, and regularly get shafted by the powers-that-be in Washington."

"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."

"Hi, do you me? My face is seen around Cincinnati constantly. But when I travel, say across state lines people don’t know me, Jerry Springer, from Jerry Ford. That’s way I carry this, the American Express Card. It’s the card that good at thousands of clubs and motels across the river. I can even get hassle free check approval. For quick and enjoyable entertainment it can’t be beat, just like me."

"I create this persona for the show. And thats what it is. Im an act."

"Country comes before politics."

"I should get a weekend show where all I do is play country music."

"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."

"I still do politics but I do it behind the scenes now. So thats still my passion. Its what I believe most strongly in, and I love that. Do I miss being in elective politics? Sometimes. This show is fun to do, my American show, and its obviously silly, sometimes stupid. It gives me a good living and I enjoy it but Im not passionate about it like I am about politics."