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The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.

Geraldo Rivera

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Geraldo Rivera
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 4
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Brooklyn
New York
Gerald Michael Rivera
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I'm tired of getting made fun of. The reason I took on The New York Times as ferociously as I did is that I'm tired of being the little icon that people stick pins in, the whipping boy for everything that's gone wrong in this business. Whatever my excess, I think that I've been trumped in many areas by others.
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I like Chris Christie also. I like him a lot as a person. He didn't do anything to help me when I thinking of running for senate in New Jersey. But I give him a little slack.
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Latinos are just like everybody else. There are conservatives. There are moderates. There are liberals.
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Give Hamas 90 days to pick a lane, then react.
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I think that the, Ted Cruz is not even a natural-born citizen, argument will resonate for at least the next few weeks.
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I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.
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It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics
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This is a sleaze bag murdering dog and he [O.J. Simpson] has played us for fools. And the worst thing he did was exacerbate the racial divide in this country. He divided black and white America.
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To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.
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If I've done anything, I've brought passion to television.
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I'm old, but I'm still cute and strong. And very butch.
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I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies.
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When a Spanish man cries it's not a sign of weakness
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Jackson and I spent the day together, just me and him and his children. Little underlings came and went. The P.R. person came and went... It was just Michael and me and the kids. And it was very, very interesting.
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Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white.
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I must be doing something right. I've been around for a long time.
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Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn't get federal subsidies. If you want to stay there, take the risk
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There are plenty of towns in America where the 4-year-old has shot his 2-year-old sister by using daddy's gun.
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One thing about these storms, we know how disruptive things can be when we depend on the system to keep working. What would happen if the terrorists do it? Knock down the power, destroy bridges, cut the water supply?
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Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years.
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