Keith Olbermann

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

— Keith Olbermann

It's such a simple thing, really. It's an awareness that the other people in the world are other people, and that you…

— Keith Olbermann

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

— Keith Olbermann

Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News.…

— Keith Olbermann

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

— Keith Olbermann

Because I am so intensely identified with opinion and analysis and contextualization, I think I just need, for my own psychological benefit,…

— Keith Olbermann

The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability…

— Keith Olbermann

What, on the eternal list of priorities, precedes health? What more obvious role could government have than the defense of the life,…

— Keith Olbermann

Can Ken Starr ignore the apparent breadth of the sympathetic response to the President's speech? Facially, it finally dawned on me that…

— Keith Olbermann

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

— 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…

— Keith Olbermann

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

— Keith Olbermann

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

— 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

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

— Keith Olbermann

Just a threat of a boycott has got the Russians spinning.

— 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…

— Keith Olbermann

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

— 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

I was one of the first people to put [Ambassador] Joe Wilson on TV and, of course, exposing that entire attempt to…

— 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,…

— Keith Olbermann

Your anger will cool into hardened passionate insight if you wait a day. Most of the things that make me angry I…

— 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

The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you're not good enough. On occasion, some may be correct.…

— 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…

— Keith Olbermann