Explore Quotes by Keith Olbermann

Our country is wounded and bleeding now if we don't know whether or not habeas corpus exists.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Can Ken Starr ignore the apparent breadth of the sympathetic response to the President's speech? Facially, it finally dawned on me that the person Ken Starr has reminded me of facially all this time was Heinrich Himmler, including the glasses. If he now pursues the President of the United States, who, however flawed his apology was, came out and invoked God, family, his daughter, a political conspiracy and everything but the kitchen sink, would not there be some sort of comparison to a persecutor as opposed to a prosecutor for Mr. Starr?

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.

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.

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