Words matter. These are the best Megyn Kelly Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The people, as much as it’s fun to hate us, they need us. They need good, strong, skeptical journalists to be covering whoever it is – whether it’s Barack Obama or President Donald Trump.
This is the U.S.A., and it’s the most glorious place to live in the world.
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.
I want to see my kids for dinner. I want to put them down at night. I want to see their soccer games after school.
I’m a struggling guitar player.
What is it about a baby bump that makes people feel it’s okay to say things like, ‘God! You are big!’
Adversity is an opportunity for growth. And an opportunity to really know who your friends are.
I was not the only journalist to whom Trump offered gifts clearly meant to shape coverage. Many reporters have told me that Trump worked hard to offer them something fabulous – from hotel rooms to rides on his 757.
What people don’t realize about Donald Trump – and I don’t even know if Donald Trump realizes it – is that every tweet he unleashes against you… creates such a crescendo of anger.
Why can’t there be an acknowledgment that, in some instances, women remove themselves from the workforce for a long time, and when they come back, of course they’re not going to get exactly equal pay?
When Roger Ailes hired me, he knew I was the daughter of a college professor and a nurse. There was nothing in this resume that would telegraph, ‘She’s a secret conservative.’
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.
I knew Andrew Breitbart very well, and he was great. I loved him. He was a true provocateur who would be fun about it, you know.
I see it as this: I send my kids to school not only to learn how to read and write and do math, but also to develop socially. So if there’s a negative interaction between my child and another child, what I want to know is, how was it handled, what lessons came out of it, and, of course, is my child okay?
I’m a news anchor; I’m not an ideologue.
I think that ‘Fox News’ is fair and balanced.
I’m an independent.
What I don’t like is talking points.
If I were Sarah Palin, would I want to sit in an interview with someone who was secretly out to get me? Probably not.
You can’t go by what things look like on paper.
My dad died of a heart attack when I was 15. I was bullied mercilessly in middle school. I went through a divorce – those not-so-great things are all a part of me, and they give me a place to go when I cover those stories on the news. I’m more empathetic, more relatable because of them.
I’m not going to say how I vote… I love that people make these assumptions about you because you work at Fox… That’s my job: to be contrarian, to push people.
The news changes every day. So it’s not like being involved in any litigation that goes on for four years, and the trial lasts three months.
Men should have more time with their newborn babies.
Television can be a very fickle place.
I never felt that I had the natural intellectual gifts that the people who graduate first in their class from Harvard Law had.
I believe that I can do more for women by being the best at what I do in the role that I have than going out and just talking about how women are awesome and you shouldn’t mess with them.
Some things are worth the fat and calories, although I have to watch it like a hawk.
The relative lack of power of certain minority groups, and the fear they’re feeling in the wake of Donald Trump’s election, is something I think we really need to take a look at.
I was never lined up outside of my bosses office saying ‘Give me an opportunity; there’s not a woman in primetime’… I was just trying to be so good they couldn’t ignore me.
You can’t just coast along. You need to be extraordinary. If you want a promotion or a raise, ask yourself, ‘How can I behave in a way to get my boss to believe I deserve one?’
I spent most of my life from 24 to 31 at the office. I wasn’t going to people’s weddings; I wasn’t cultivating my marriage. I wasn’t happy.
I don’t like the women who stand up for the empowerment of women at the expense of men. They try to demonize men, and they try to suggest men all want to keep us down, which is one of the reasons why I don’t like that label ‘feminist.’
As a lawyer, I could engage in killer litigation with the best of them. It was war, after all.
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.
If I could have half the career of Diane Sawyer, I’d be a happy woman.
I wasn’t a shrinking violet when I joined Fox News. I didn’t have any power at Fox – I had no power in the TV industry – but I had been a lawyer for nine years who had practiced employment law.
I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn’t come from money, and I didn’t come from circles of power. I didn’t come from the country club; I came from the town park.
I always feel like I want more time with my kids. But I reject the notion that you can’t have it all. I think you can: just not necessarily in abundance.
I try to stay off Twitter.
I’m conservative on some things, and I’m not on others.
There are lots of people who are red-carpet types, but that’s not me.
I think we have gone too far into the PC culture, but there’s a limit to how far we can take that.
Just because you might have a sparring match on the air doesn’t mean there’s any personal animosity.
In life and in politics, it’s helpful to try to perceive the other person through the most generous lens.
When people talk about fake news, you know, a lot of folks just roll their eyes, like ‘Oh, you know, whatever; people will figure it out.’ The truth is, they don’t always figure it out.
I would be lying if I said it wasn’t cool to see myself on the cover of ‘Vanity Fair,’ right? It’s, like, what am I doing there? This is bizarre.
While I don’t think Trump wants to target any particular minority group, I understand their fear because he spent many months stoking it.
I was a big Jay Leno fan, so I was sorry to see him go. But my number one person that I watch, she’s not late night, but in terms of the comedian genre, is Ellen DeGeneres – love her.
In TV, a woman helping another woman break in? Not that common.
I admire those women who really knew who they were and didn’t apologize for it. Katharine Hepburn? She was ahead of her time.
I think my viewers want smart, honest programming. They don’t want to be told what makes them feel good.
The best answer and the best way forward to young women out there who want to get ahead is work your tail off. Work harder than everybody. Be better than everybody else. Do better. Try harder.
There have been so many times when I challenged Republicans on air – in big moments.
A woman can be harassed and then go on to have a good working relationship with the man harassing her.
Being a trial lawyer sounds like glamorous work, but most of your time is spent pushing paper and arguing.
I had more sexist encounters as a lawyer than I had as a journalist.
People think I’m fearless. But I’m human.
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.
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.