Quotes from Jane Velez-Mitchell

Public downfalls are more painful and humiliating than private ones.

Why are kids being inundated with food that is not good for them, when we're suffering from an obesity crisis? Is the U.S. government talking out of both sides of its mouth, promoting bad food while telling us not to eat it?

There's no better feeling in the world than knowing that my show played a role in stopping animal abuse or alleviating animal suffering.

McDonald's says it's phasing out pig gestation crates. When I heard that news, I almost started crying.

Now, Spitzer was an anti-crime crusader cracking down on prostitution and Wall Street corruption. So some people were looking to take him down.

The myriad of serious health risks resulting from poor diet include high cholesterol, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, and even sleep apnea.

Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?

We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity.

Using animals for entertainment is big business, plain and simple.

I say peace begins on your plate.

Every day, it seems, a new extreme weather catastrophe happens somewhere in America, and the media's all over it, profiling the ordinary folks wiped out by forest fires, droughts, floods, massive sinkholes, tornadoes.

What does animal welfare have to do with food safety? The animals are the food! They are living in their own excrement, developing horrific sores, stressed out, and, therefore, more vulnerable to illness and disease.

The government sends low-flying helicopters to chase the horses into corrals and then takes them from the plains of the American West to federal holding pens. The government claims it's to save the horses from starvation. Critics claim the real motive is to clear the land for cattle grazing. Critics also say the horses are brutally traumatized.

If you say no to cruel factory farm practices, only then will the government say yes to change.

We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.

Denial is a very powerful thing.

We have been brainwashed into craving a diet that is killing us. What we believe tastes good is generally what we have been socially conditioned to enjoy.

Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.

Family issues and a failing career would be enough to consume most young actresses.

Redemption isn't giving a bank robber a job as a teller.

Child Protective Services, all over the country, need to be revamped top to bottom.

I love 'Scandal.' It's my favorite show - it's really - the only one I really watch.

It's time for compassionate Americans to send a wake-up call to their members of Congress and demand passage of legislation to end the wholesale slaughter of America's horses once and for all.

Agribusiness - with its wicked powerful lobby and its infiltration of top bureaucratic posts - essentially runs roughshod over the government agencies that are supposed to monitor it. It's the rich fox guarding the filthy, overcrowded henhouse.