“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.”

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.

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

I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.

If you’re hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You’ll get the same kind of feeling and you won’t have to pay.

Boys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with him. Better to play fifteen minutes enjoyably and then say, ‘Now I’m going to read my paper’ than to spend all day at the zoo crossly.

The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.

The zoo cannot but disappoint.