Establishment Quotes by Alan Colmes

To be successful in talk radio, you have to have a conservative audience as well. Not enough liberals listen to it.

— Alan Colmes

People say to me, 'Why don't you fight fire with fire?' You fight fire with water, not fire.

— Alan Colmes

I'm quite moderate.

— Alan Colmes

Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.

— Alan Colmes

I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.

— Alan Colmes

There is no asterisk in the Constitution that says 'except for hate speech.'

— Alan Colmes

We live in a liberal country. If you came here from Iraq or Iran, you really would think that we are quite a liberal…

— Alan Colmes

I don't delude myself into thinking I'll bring anyone around to my way of thinking, especially Sean Hannity.

— Alan Colmes

The fact is that we are, compared to most other places, a very liberal country.

— Alan Colmes

If what you are claiming is true, I would have shouted it from the rooftops. I would have gone to the authorities, the FBI,…

— Alan Colmes

Air America Radio was thinking of hiring me, but they discovered something in my past that didn't sit well with them: radio experience.

— Alan Colmes

I can be just as effective with a quick retort or a one-liner than with a big paragraph.

— Alan Colmes