I didn't have a lot of the advantages Donald Trump had, but I had the most important ones you can get, which are loving parents who cared about me and helped me develop a sense of self.
— Megyn Kelly
I wasn't a shrinking violet when I joined Fox News. I didn't have any power at Fox - I had no power in the TV industry - but I had been a lawyer for nine years who had practiced employment law.
I think we have gone too far into the PC culture, but there's a limit to how far we can take that.
People think I'm fearless. But I'm human.
I was not the only journalist to whom Trump offered gifts clearly meant to shape coverage. Many reporters have told me that Trump worked hard to offer them something fabulous - from hotel rooms to rides on his 757.
You can't just coast along. You need to be extraordinary. If you want a promotion or a raise, ask yourself, 'How can I behave in a way to get my boss to believe I deserve one?'
The most powerful people in my town were the doctors and the lawyers. I didn't really have any experience dealing with really powerful people until I started practicing law.
I admire those women who really knew who they were and didn't apologize for it. Katharine Hepburn? She was ahead of her time.
I can give anyone a hard time.
I felt the call to this industry because I enjoy broadcast journalism. I'm steeped in the news because I enjoy the news - I like reading papers; I like reading the blogs. I love talking to newsmakers and pundits, for that matter, about their opinions. I'm an information gatherer by nature, so that's what attracted me about this industry.
I was always a strong personality. I was never an introvert.
In TV, a woman helping another woman break in? Not that common.
When Roger Ailes hired me, he knew I was the daughter of a college professor and a nurse. There was nothing in this resume that would telegraph, 'She's a secret conservative.'
Being a trial lawyer sounds like glamorous work, but most of your time is spent pushing paper and arguing.
I'm a news anchor; I'm not an ideologue.
You want to know what I love most about myself? I'll tell you the truth: My clavicle. I think I have a nice clavicle.
I don't like the women who stand up for the empowerment of women at the expense of men. They try to demonize men, and they try to suggest men all want to keep us down, which is one of the reasons why I don't like that label 'feminist.'
I did not grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth.
What should matter is whether I stand for female empowerment, and I don't think there are many women out there who have any doubts about that.
What people don't realize about Donald Trump - and I don't even know if Donald Trump realizes it - is that every tweet he unleashes against you... creates such a crescendo of anger.
Adversity is an opportunity for growth. And an opportunity to really know who your friends are.
I keep my head down, my mouth shut and work hard.
You can't go by what things look like on paper.
I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn't come from money, and I didn't come from circles of power. I didn't come from the country club; I came from the town park.
I think the most effective managers in the world have a team that wants to jump through brick walls for them.
If you behave like a stupid moron, you're going to get called out by me.
Oftentimes it feels like Fox stands alone in the media on certain stories.
In law, especially back in '95 when I was breaking in, it was much more of an old boys' network.
I'm an independent.
If I'm going to turn on the television, it's going to be the Fox News channel.
Nobody really knows my true feelings on a lot of issues.
When people talk about fake news, you know, a lot of folks just roll their eyes, like 'Oh, you know, whatever; people will figure it out.' The truth is, they don't always figure it out.
I'm not going to say how I vote... I love that people make these assumptions about you because you work at Fox... That's my job: to be contrarian, to push people.
I don't like that word: feminist.
You have to understand that Roger Ailes was a king. He was on the cover of multiple industry publications as the most powerful man in news. And at Fox News, there was no one else with power. So you didn't want to get on the wrong side of him because he was actually beloved inside the building and very well-liked in the industry.
Donald Trump and the First Amendment, it's not a beautiful match; it's not a match made in heaven. Between the free speech rights that he has not defended and the freedom of the press, which he has not defended, it's problematic.
I can muster up the courage in the difficult situations to get me through.
I try to stay off Twitter.
My dad died of a heart attack when I was 15. I was bullied mercilessly in middle school. I went through a divorce - those not-so-great things are all a part of me, and they give me a place to go when I cover those stories on the news. I'm more empathetic, more relatable because of them.
I spent most of my life from 24 to 31 at the office. I wasn't going to people's weddings; I wasn't cultivating my marriage. I wasn't happy.
I'm an upstate New York lifer.
It's not that I'm a 'Let's hug and be joyful all the time' boss. Or that I don't, quote, 'own my own power.' I just never want to be that big, swingin', rule-by-fear person.
I don't understand these politicians who want to be president and complain when they get a tough interview.
I was popular, and I enjoyed that, and my mother kept telling me I better take typing so I'd have something to fall back on. I didn't know what the future held, but once I got my law degree, I started to feel like, 'OK, I'm a serious person.'
I had more sexist encounters as a lawyer than I had as a journalist.
There have been so many times when I challenged Republicans on air - in big moments.
I was a big Jay Leno fan, so I was sorry to see him go. But my number one person that I watch, she's not late night, but in terms of the comedian genre, is Ellen DeGeneres - love her.
I don't want to be an opinion anchor.
I believe that I can do more for women by being the best at what I do in the role that I have than going out and just talking about how women are awesome and you shouldn't mess with them.
I'm conservative on some things, and I'm not on others.
