“I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay.”

Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they’ve had their pets spayed or neutered.

Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth

You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn’t care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers.

Change isn’t always good. Sometimes changing things is a terrible mistake.

I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole ‘Super Bowl’ generalization of our world – You’re on this side, I’m on that side; you’re a Republican, I’m a Democrat; you’re country music, I’m rock music.

Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.

We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what’s going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside zoos or rodeos.

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you’re in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

For years, they were doing horrible things to animals in the manufacture of cosmetics, and testing of the most barbaric types; today, if you go into a drugstore and go down the [cosmetics] aisle.

I can tell you that I’d rather be kissed by my dogs than by some people I’ve known.

A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life.

I’ll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there’s no substitute for experience. I don’t care how much natural talent you may have… In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.

Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered.

Networks decide who will have a chance to do shows, but it is the viewers who make the final decision of who stays and who goes.

I became a vegetarian out of concern for animals, but I wasn’t a vegetarian long before I realized there’s something to that.

I decided I got to say whether I was Christian or not, and so I’ve relaxed enormously since then. I’m the one who gets to say that, and not someone else.

I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.

Since each religion claims that it is the only true one and that the others are invalid’, the king explained, ‘I have decided to hedge my bets’.

I Became a free woman when I decided to stop dreaming, freedom that is waiting for nothing .. and anticipation is a state of slavery

It won’t be decided in one election, but it is a basic choice between an open and progressive Iraq and one that is backward and continues to fall behind.

If, as we decided in Munich, there will be a cessation of hostilities and humanitarian assistance can flow into Syria – then this will open the door for the beginning of the political transition process.

And I decided that I would best serve as a producer as opposed to a studio executive.

The main reason I decided to study Latin American literature was because I’d gotten somewhat bored by the American fiction I was reading. I am not drawn to a specific style or aesthetic.