Latest Keith Olbermann Quotes from Interviews

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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

• 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

  Long, People, Wife

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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

  Thinking, Islands, Needs

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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

  Thinking, Personality, Tvs

  Source: www.gq.com

• 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

• 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

  People, Overcoming, Done

  Source: www.gq.com

• Anything that prevents you from taking an action or actions that might reasonably dispel legitimate anxieties. Fear is what paralyzes you.

  Keith Olbermann

  Anxiety, Might, Action

  Source: www.gq.com

• 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