Keith Olbermann Quotes

Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen.

I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.

It's not about 'NBC is evil.' It's about that media structure - CBS, ABC, CNN, even some of the smaller operations are now multinationals, with these extraordinarily diverse holdings.

One side sticks to the facts, and the other side is close to playing with its poop.

A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences.

Reagan's dead, and he was a lousy President.

The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.

It's very tough to get yourself around the idea that there could be a mechanism being used or abused to restrict and alter the society in which we live.

You know the Art Rule: Do something that entertains/interests YOU, if you're lucky it'll do the same for others.

I do know without fear of contradiction what the definition of life is and it is 12 words long. 'Life is defined by how much you improve the lives of others.'

Fox News is worse than al Qaeda. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan.

I'm a natural management guy. I had forgotten that. And I forgot how much I hate it.

I'm difficult for management. That's why I have the reputation because nobody challenges management.

Without humor, a sports fan is a religious fanatic. Without humor, a newscast is a terrible, depressing, unpalatable thing.

I stand up to people.

Success is overrated.

As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance.

The idea of negotiating with the President of the United States runs contrary to everything that the Republicans have done since January 20, 2009.

An uprising of the reasonable is our only chance.

If you're a baseball fan and you don't know what BP is, you're working in a mine without one of those helmets with the lights on it.

My last sort of crisis was about overcoming the people who were more interested in what I had done than what I was doing in the present.

Anything that prevents you from taking an action or actions that might reasonably dispel legitimate anxieties. Fear is what paralyzes you.

I don't think there are huge divergences between my personality and what they see on TV. And I think that's why I have been gainfully employed doing this. I'll always deliver what an employer wants.

I'm not an anarchist. I believe in government.

I can't think of an instance at MSNBC where anything I said on the air was influenced by what was going on behind the scenes.

Even on the greatest teams, there's always one role player.

All the things that people like me supposedly don't do, I do.

Matt Millen, you draft a wide receiver every year. HOW DARE YOU SIR, HOW DARE YOU!

I have achieved what I wanted to achieve. I'm better off at some sort of independent place where they not only like what I produce but also trust me to be the one to produce it.

Courage is a mutual thing.

What's the difference between a hockey mom and a mass turkey-murdering machine? Looks like about 15 feet.

You risk becoming a parody of yourself by not innovating.

Without [hatred] Michelle Malkin would just be a big mashed up bag of meat with lipstick on it.

On so many levels [S.E. Cupp]’s a perfect demonstration of the necessity of the work Planned Parenthood does.

[T]he strike is inherently dangerous to the rich, and to the corporations who have brought this country to her knees, because it is the only defense the ordinary citizen has.

[Michelle Malkin] has been supporting a party which includes most of the idiots in this country who would judge her entirely and exclusively on her [Filipino] appearance.