Top 51 Keith Olbermann Quotes
#1. 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.
Keith Olbermann
#2. 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.
Keith Olbermann
#3. The idea of negotiating with the President of the United States runs contrary to everything that the Republicans have done since January 20, 2009.
Keith Olbermann
#4. All the things that people like me supposedly don't do, I do.
Keith Olbermann
#5. Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda - worse for our society. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.
Keith Olbermann
#6. If there is a silver lining in the action of MSNBC against Keith Olbermann, it is that people will now pay more attention to the political role of corporate media in America.
Bernie Sanders
#7. A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences.
Keith Olbermann
#9. Keith Olbermann is trying to make a business out of destroying Bill O'Reilly. He's done certain things to Bill O'Reilly that I believe were way over the line. I think that's bad behavior. But it's okay for him to criticize Bill. And Bill shouldn't be so sensitive. He should ignore that.
Rupert Murdoch
#10. 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.
Keith Olbermann
#11. 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.
Keith Olbermann
#12. Even on the greatest teams, there's always one role player.
Keith Olbermann
#13. Health care is, at its core, about improving the odds of life in its struggle against death. Of extending that game which we will all lose, each and every one of us unto eternity, extending it another year or month or second.
Keith Olbermann
#14. 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.
Keith Olbermann
#15. I watch Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, and Chris Matthews. That's what I watch every night. By the time I've watched them, I don't have time to watch reality TV shows.
Andre Leon Talley
#16. I'm a natural management guy. I had forgotten that. And I forgot how much I hate it.
Keith Olbermann
#18. You know the Art Rule: Do something that entertains/interests YOU, if you're lucky it'll do (the) same for others
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#19. 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.
Keith Olbermann
#20. I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.
Keith Olbermann
#21. 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.'
Keith Olbermann
#22. [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.
Keith Olbermann
#24. 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.
Keith Olbermann
#25. Our country is wounded and bleeding now if we don't know whether or not habeas corpus exists.
Keith Olbermann
#27. Anything that prevents you from taking an action or actions that might reasonably dispel legitimate anxieties. Fear is what paralyzes you.
Keith Olbermann
#28. Once the Republicans get rolling, they assume they're going to win everything. They are zealots, and zealots assume the last five percent of whatever their plan is will be taken care of by their own greatness or momentum or divinity.
Keith Olbermann
#29. 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.
Keith Olbermann
#30. Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals. But not ... to Bill O
Keith Olbermann
#31. Fox News is worse than al Qaeda. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan.
Keith Olbermann
#32. The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you're not good enough. On occasion, some may be correct. But do not do their work for them. Seek any job; ask anyone out; pursue any goal. Don't take it personally when they say 'no' - they may not be smart enough to say 'yes.
Keith Olbermann
#33. Wanting to be on television is a mental illness. Wanting to be president of the United States, wanting to be an actor - these are degrees of the same mental illness. If you need to be approved of simultaneously by more people than are in this room now, there's a problem.
Keith Olbermann
#34. Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen.
Keith Olbermann
#35. I was one of the first people to put [Ambassador] Joe Wilson on TV and, of course, exposing that entire attempt to smear him by exposing his wife [CIA operations officer Valerie Plame Wilson]. And we sat down to do a long interview by satellite and we publicized it for several days.
Keith Olbermann
#36. [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.
Keith Olbermann
#37. Just a threat of a boycott has got the Russians spinning.
Keith Olbermann
#38. You risk becoming a parody of yourself by not innovating.
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#40. The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.
Keith Olbermann
#41. Your anger will cool into hardened passionate insight if you wait a day. Most of the things that make me angry I let them sit. The heat that remains will be sufficient. The stuff that evaporates is the stuff that would have simply offended or made it histrionic.
Keith Olbermann
#42. I wonder about guys like Sean Hannity, Keith Olbermann and Mark Levin. They're on such a mission. I mean, I love Hannity and Levin to death, but on the radio they're insane. How can you keep that up?
Don Imus
#43. The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch of people. They form together in a massive ID and they do whatever they want.
Keith Olbermann
#44. MSNBC has abruptly ended their relationship with Keith Olbermann, and according to his contract he's not allowed back on television for at least six months. Or as industry experts call it, The Conan.
Conan O'Brien
#45. What's the difference between a hockey mom and a mass turkey-murdering machine? Looks like about 15 feet.
Keith Olbermann
#46. I'm difficult for management. That's why I have the reputation because nobody challenges management.
Keith Olbermann
#47. 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.
Keith Olbermann
#48. At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have environmental cases against us, we don't have a series of outdoor-advertising companies.
Keith Olbermann
#49. One side sticks to the facts, and the other side is close to playing with its poop.
Keith Olbermann
#50. Because I am so intensely identified with opinion and analysis and contextualization, I think I just need, for my own psychological benefit, a small island in which I can stand and say, 'I'm going to sit this one out.'
Keith Olbermann
#51. When he arrived, Keith (Olbermann) had one thing in mind: it was Keith. That's fine. Nothing wrong with that.
Bob Ley
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