“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.”

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.

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

There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.

In the end, your creativity — perhaps even your outrageousness — will determine the final result.

The Finals are about a test of wills.

That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident.

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

The final cause of law is the welfare of society.

In the beginning God created the heavans and the earth… see you at the final.

You can make a fresh start with your final breath.