Keith Olbermann Quotes

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• 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

  Jobs, Smart, People

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• 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

  Waiting, Passionate, Stuff

  "Keith Olbermann: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. September 17, 2013.

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• 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

  Hurt, Ku Klux Klan, News

  "Keith Olbermann: 'Fox News Is Worse Than Al Qaeda'" by Noel Sheppard, www.newsbusters.org. September 10, 2007.

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• One side sticks to the facts, and the other side is close to playing with its poop.

  Keith Olbermann

  Poop, Facts, Sides

  "Olbermann: FNC & Conservative Side 'Close to Playing With Its Own Poop,' 'Better Off' If They 'Didn't Live in This Country'". www.newsbusters.org. November 19, 2010.

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

  Keith Olbermann

  Fighting, Bully, Needs

  Source: www.gq.com

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• [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

  Country, Party, Judging

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• 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

  Friday, Past, Ideas

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• The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

  Keith Olbermann

  Men, Politics, Shade

  Keith Olbermann (2008). “Truth and Consequences: Special Comments on the Bush Administration's War on American Values”, p.11, Random House

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• Fox News is worse than al Qaeda. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan.

  Keith Olbermann

  Ku Klux Klan, News, Als

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• 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

  Ideas, Tough, Used

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• 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

  People, President, Actors

  Source: www.gq.com

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• 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

  Struggle, Odds, Years

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• 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

  Children, Animal, Simple

  Keith Olbermann (2006). “The Worst Person In the World: And 202 Strong Contenders”, p.263, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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

  Party, Eye, Doe

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• [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

  Country, Struggle, Defense

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• 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.

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  People, Together, Want

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• 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 because of disease and not disaster, [radio host] Neal Boortz and all those who ape him approve this. Forty five thousand a year in America. Remind me again, who are the terrorists?

  Keith Olbermann

  Country, Years, America

  "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", www.nbcnews.com. January 5, 2010.

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• 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

  Thinking, Talking, Names

  Source: www.wbur.org

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

  Keith Olbermann

  President

  Twitter post from Sep 27, 2011

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• You know the Art Rule: Do something that entertains/interests YOU, if you're lucky it'll do the same for others.

  Keith Olbermann

  Art, Lucky, Interest

  Keith Olbermann @KeithOlbermann, twitter.com. September 18, 2010.

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• 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

  War, Lying, Men

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• 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

  Health, Self, Availability

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• 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?

  Keith Olbermann

  Daughter, Apology, Glasses

  "Olbermann Compares Bush White House to Clinton's 'White House in Crisis'" by Brent Baker, www.newsbusters.org. October 21, 2005.

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

  Keith Olbermann

  Perfect, Doe, Levels

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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

  Thinking, Years, Rooms

  "Making Up Hard to Do for Olbermann" by Bob Wolfley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 16, 2003.

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