Olbermann Famous Quotes & Sayings
60 Olbermann Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
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
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
Fox News is worse than al Qaeda. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan.— Keith Olbermann
What's the difference between a hockey mom and a mass turkey-murdering machine? Looks like about 15 feet.— Keith Olbermann
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
You risk becoming a parody of yourself by not innovating.— Keith Olbermann
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
Apparently, the people in the [George W.] Bush administration who wanted to confront me on this could not spell my name correctly. They wanted to send a series of emails thinking that perhaps MSNBC was perhaps favorable to the Bush administration. They thought that they could send me a series of questions or talking points to disprove Joe Wilson with.— Keith Olbermann
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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
Good evening. A President who lied us into a war and, in so doing, needlessly killed 3,584 of our family and friends and neighbors; a President whose administration initially tried to destroy the first man to nail that lie; a President whose henchmen then ruined the career of the intelligence asset that was his wife when intelligence assets were never more essential to the viability of the Republic; a President like that has tonight freed from the prospect of prison the only man ever to come to trial for one of the component felonies in what may be the greatest crime of this young century.— Keith Olbermann
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
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
As a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost your political party seemingly perpetual congressional seats ... When somebody asks you, sir, about the cooked books and faked threats you foisted on a sincere and frightened nation; when somebody asks you, sir, about your gallant, noble, self-abnegating sacrifice of your golf game so as to soothe the families of the war dead; this advice, Mr. Bush: Shut the hell up! Good night and good luck.— Keith Olbermann
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
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
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A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences.— Keith Olbermann
The key to terror, the key to terrorism, is not the act - but the fear of the act. That is why bin Laden and his deputies and his imitators are forever putting together videotaped statements and releasing virtual infomercials with dire threats and heart-stopping warnings. But why is the Republican Party imitating them? Bin Laden puts out what amounts to a commercial of fear; The Republicans put out what is unmistakable as a commercial of fear. The Republicans are paying to have the messages of bin Laden and the others broadcast into your home.— Keith Olbermann
Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen.— Keith Olbermann
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
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
Even on the greatest teams, there's always one role player.— Keith Olbermann
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
Our country is wounded and bleeding now if we don't know whether or not habeas corpus exists.— Keith Olbermann
The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.— Keith Olbermann
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
I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.— Keith Olbermann
I'm not an anarchist. I believe in government.— Keith Olbermann
Reagan's dead, and he was a lousy President.— Keith Olbermann
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
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
I'm difficult for management. That's why I have the reputation because nobody challenges management.— Keith Olbermann
When he arrived, Keith (Olbermann) had one thing in mind: it was Keith. That's fine. Nothing wrong with that.— Bob Ley
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
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
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
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
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
Anything that prevents you from taking an action or actions that might reasonably dispel legitimate anxieties. Fear is what paralyzes you.— Keith Olbermann
Success is overrated.— Keith Olbermann
I stand up to people.— Keith Olbermann
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
What would you do, sir, if terrorists were killing 45,000 people every year in this country? Well, the current health care system, the insurance companies, and those who support them are doing just that ... Because they die individually of disease and not disaster, [radio host] Neal Boortz and those who ape him in office and out, approve their deaths, all 45,000 of them - a year - in America. Remind me again, who are the terrorists?— Keith Olbermann
I'm a natural management guy. I had forgotten that. And I forgot how much I hate it.— Keith Olbermann
Just a threat of a boycott has got the Russians spinning.— Keith Olbermann
What, on the eternal list of priorities, precedes health? What more obvious role could government have than the defense of the life, of each citizen? We cannot stop every germ that seeks to harm us any more than we can stop every person who seeks to harm us. But we can try dammit and government's essential role in that effort facilitate it, reduce its cost, broaden its availability, improve my health and yours, seems, ultimately, self-explanatory.— Keith Olbermann
You know the Art Rule: Do something that entertains/interests YOU, if you're lucky it'll do (the) same for others— Keith Olbermann
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
If racism is not the whole of the Tea Party, it is in its heart, along with blind hatred, a total disinterest in the welfare of others, and a full-flowered self-rationalizing refusal to accept the outcomes of elections, or the reality of democracy, or the narrowness of their minds and the equal narrowness of their public support.— Keith Olbermann
A past President, bullied and sandbagged by a monkey posing as a newscaster, finally lashed back ... The nation's marketplace of ideas is being poisoned by a propaganda company so blatant that Tokyo Rose would've quit ... As with all the other nefariousness and slime of this, our worst presidency since James Buchanan, he [President Bush] is having it done for him, by proxy. Thus, the sandbag effort by Fox News Friday afternoon.— Keith Olbermann
[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
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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
One side sticks to the facts, and the other side is close to playing with its poop.— Keith Olbermann
And if Sarah Palin whose Web site put and today scrubbed bull's-eyes targets on 20 Representatives, including Gabby Giffords, does not repudiate her own part - however tangential - in amplifying violence and violent imagery in American politics, she must be dismissed from politics. She must be repudiated by the members of her own party. And if they fail to do so, each one of them must be judged to have silently defended this tactic that today proved so awfully foretelling. And they must in turn be dismissed by the responsible members of their own party.— Keith Olbermann
An uprising of the reasonable is our only chance.— Keith Olbermann
All the things that people like me supposedly don't do, I do.— Keith Olbermann
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
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
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
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
[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
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