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 behind the scenes.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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”

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

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

“I stand up to people.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have environmental cases against us, we don't have a series of outdoor-advertising companies.”

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