KEITH OLBERMANN

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

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.

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.

I stand up to people.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Without humor, a newscast is a terrible, depressing, unpalatable thing.

At some point, some of these people are going to wake up to find that the great secular assault they see on their children was, in fact, a bogeyman created to hide their own bad parenting. If they can't convince their own kids of the appropriateness of their religion and values, then the religion, the values, or the convincing, must not have been very good.

Since Homeland Security got up to speed in the spring of 2002, it as warned of al Qaeda using or targeting amusement parks, apartment building, banks, beer coolers, boats, cargo planes, cell phone, churches, crop dusters, farmer's almanacs, hijacked oil trucks, inner-city train, malls, nightclubs, reservoirs, scuba divers, sports stadiums, and subways. Add limousines to the list and helicopters.

Ethics and Washington DC. Are they mutually exclusive?

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

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

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.

What was the more likely cause of the Oklahoma City bombing: talk radio or Bill Clinton and Janet Renos hands-on management of Waco, the Branch Davidian compound?...Obviously, the answer is talk radio. Specifically Rush Limbaughs hate radio....Frankly, Rush, you have that blood on your hands now and you have had it for 15 years.