Top 66 Harris Faulkner Quotes

Sometimes the most motivated person to change something is the one being held accountable at the moment.

When I was a little girl, my father, who was a high-ranking officer, pilot, and an avionics specialist in the United States military, would hoist me up onto the elevator – the flight control surface located at the tail of his airplane. From up there I could get a glimpse of the world as he saw it.

I may not have served myself, but I grew up witnessing service, and it was perhaps my most foundational experience. For a little background, I’m what’s called a brat in military circles.

Downtime for me is just when I can sit still.

I wrote for my university newspaper and went on to freelance for a Los Angeles publication in my first months after graduating from UC Santa Barbara. I also interned at a couple of TV stations in the L.A. area.

On a daily basis I’m covering things that are leaking out of the White House and leaking out what should be closed-door meetings on the Hill. That is not integrity.

I’m not Pollyanna. Nobody has a magic wand.

When a black church is hit in South Carolina by someone with hate in their spirit, that’s something that touches all of America, but as a person of color, I see that story even through a deeper prism of, ‘Gosh, that takes us back to a time when black churches were targets in this country.’

You don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

People often ask how my hair has that supreme fullness even at midnight. Here’s a trick that one of our Fox News stylists taught me: Backcomb your hair just at the crown for height, and then put a large velcro roller there and wear it for as long as you can. I keep rollers in until showtime.

I have a certain perspective and intolerance for people who try to twist and bend whatever the truth might be.

In the past, the biggest mistake I’ve made has been trying to treat election night like the first and last time anyone will ever see me on TV. I’ve worn dresses that were more prom time than primetime.

It benefits my girls to see a mommy who is living her dream.

My kids really still share the one thing that I think is life-changing, and that’s eye contact with me. As they’ve gotten older, I have made it a priority to continue that.

The prominence of the market I guess is important to some people. For me, it was less about the number and more about the opportunities that might open up in that market. One of the questions I wanted to know about that next job was, what’s your weather like? I am into the weather!

When you’re in Kansas City and it’s game day, there is nothing going on but game day.

I challenge you to go and turn on the other cable networks to find a face like mine in primetime.

Outnumbered Overtime’ began as an online extension to the then-brand new hit, ‘Outnumbered.’ My goal was to turn an interactive, chat room type show into a source for news and compelling interviews.

My dad was a fighter pilot with the 210th Combat Aviation in Vietnam.

Having a CEO, having that person run a news corporation who’s female, is already a talking point.

Americans need to be engaged and invested in the legislative process that affects their daily lives, otherwise we are just democracy in name only.

My mother gave birth to me at Fort McPherson in Atlanta, Georgia. A short while later we were living in Stuttgart, Germany.

At the end of the day, we can talk about anything but we have to be respectful.

I do believe that this country is the greatest on this planet and that we can come together and get great answers together.

I’m a motivational speaker, so I’m going to look at something in as much of a positive way as possible.

I married an amazing guy.

My husband is Jewish.

I feel really blessed to work in a place that values me for what I bring as a journalist and as a professional storyteller and navigator of the news. But I also know that they appreciate about me, my perspective as a woman, as a black woman.

We want eyeballs on the screen.

It is well documented that Fox News has the audience demographics that other networks thirst for.

Regardless of what all the research says about don’t talk about politics at work, people are talking about what they see on the news.

President Trump has made political news interesting and necessary for people to follow.

It’s social media. You can’t be thin-skinned.

You need to know how to put a mission together to victory!

Sometimes I get slammed because I work at Fox and I am black. People are like, ‘How could you work there? Who are you?’ People really want to know what are your politics personally. Some of them, not everybody.

Remembering growing up on U.S. Army bases stateside and abroad, the Star-Spangled Banner was played at important occasions… and often. It was the first song I learned the lyrics to.

You have a finite amount of people who watch at a certain time every day. But when you have that kind of success that ‘Outnumbered Overtime’ continues to have, it’s gotta be a broader audience. I’m really thrilled about that.

I love the energy and urgency of working in news.

I think it’s impossible to be up close with people and to ask them to let you in if you’re fake.

I always wear my signature 5- to 5-and-a-half-inch heels.

One thing every Army pilot knows is that there is no such thing as a routine mission.

Local news taught me to take each moment as one of extreme importance – don’t waste people’s time. Give them solid information in a compelling fashion so they will remember it and use it in their lives.

I knew from a very young age that I was going to use my voice. I’ve basically sounded like this since I was 9.

I’m living my dream totally! I mean, my career dream, my home-life dream with the two kids and the hubby. And my familial dream outside of that was for my Mom to see me host my own weekday show and she didn’t live to see that but her partner of 57 years did.

My dad was ex-military, so I was raised to always know about current events, particularly what was going on with the military and government. And I always loved storytelling.

When you see me up on a breaking-news story, it is not good news. I’m not about to give you the secret to my mom’s sweet potato pie.

For young people I like to talk about unleashing your integrity, because I tie it to social media and how careful we have to be about being consistent online with who we really are.

If anybody can harm you, it’s going to be the people who are closest.

The thing that I really love to do, that I now only do in the shower, is to sing the national anthem.

Sometimes you will hear me say right on the air, ‘You just cited a poll that is not even part of Real Clear Politics,’ which is an average, an aggregate. Yours is seeming to be an outlier. Give me the name of that poll and the date that it was taken. I will say it right on the air.

We have a lot of interesting, talented women at Fox News.

Here’s what I know: My rise and success have been a direct result of the merits and fabulous opportunities from mentors, including Roger Ailes. Without him, my journey would be quite different. He has changed the arc of my career. He believed in me when people who looked like me were not in network news.

The greatest skill that I have is what the viewer has: I listen. I try to listen silently.

I’m curious when I look across the dial Monday through Friday, you know, where are the other female black anchors?

It’s not annoying to get a compliment.

Being given the honorary rank of brat is the armed services’ way of saying thank you to us kids for having grit too. They understand that when one member of a family joins the military, the whole family bears the weight of their service.

I get flak from everybody, which is how I know I’m living my truth.

My purpose has broadened. My purpose now is to help as many people rise as possible, and it doesn’t matter whether they’re women or men. But that sense of value that we have as individuals, I think informs us and helps us to treat each other better.

If there is something I don’t know and I suspect that I need clarification and so does the viewer, I just ask for it.

I believe in diversity in thought, in culture, and all sort of things.

We just work hard to win the viewers respect and trust every single day.

My mom cautioned me not to become a gossip! I was always up in people’s business. People told me stuff… even when I didn’t ask and I channeled my story gathering and good sources into a hunger for the news.

The U.S. military is known the world over for its advanced technology as well as the prowess, skill, and dedication of its service members. When you grow up in the company of its leaders, as I did, you understand that this greatness is something that is cultivated.

My mission in life is to get to heaven, so the people I have in my inner circle I don’t allow to do the ‘rule breaking’ that we know as Christians we can’t.

I grew up military but have met very few women that have a mission plan for when things don’t work out. I attack everything like that.