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Keith Theodore Olbermann (/ˈoʊlbərmən/; born January 27, 1959) is an American sports and political commentator and writer. He currently works for ESPN.

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Courage is a mutual thing.

Courage, Mutual, Thing

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

Dead, Lousy, President

[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.

Brought, Country, Knees, Ordinary, Strike, Struggle

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.

Old, Rooms, Smarter, Thinking, Years

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

Action, Anxiety, Legitimate, Might, Reasonably

It's such a simple thing, really. It's an awareness that the other people in the world are other people, and that you are one of them. That every time you have a chance to help somebody out, to do what's right instead of what you think you're supposed to do, you should do it.

Simple, Thinking, People, Time, Supposed, Right

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

Men, Nuances, Politics, Quack, Sees, Shade

As a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost your political party seemingly perpetual congressional seats. . . . When somebody asks you, sir, about the cooked books and faked threats you foisted on a sincere and frightened nation; when somebody asks you, sir, about your gallant, noble, self-abnegating sacrifice of your golf game so as to soothe the families of the war dead; this advice, Mr. Bush: Shut the hell up! Good night and good luck.

Book, Game, Good Night, Political, Somebody, War

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.

Deliver, Employer, Personality, Think, Thinking, Want

Just a threat of a boycott has got the Russians spinning.

Boycott, Gay, Spinning, Threat

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.

Baseball, Fan, Fans, Helmets, Light

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.

Ideas, Society, Tough, Used

What's the difference between a hockey mom and a mass turkey-murdering machine? Looks like about 15 feet.

Difference, Hockey, Mom, Turkeys

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.

Like, Lying, Men, Prison, Tried, War

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.

Against, Health, Lose, Odds, Struggle, Years

Success is overrated.

Overrated, Success

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.

Joe, Long, People, Valerie, Wife

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.

Crisis, Done, Overcoming, People

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

Animal, Children, Fox, John, Simple, Sink

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.

Angry, Insight, Passionate, Stuff, Waiting

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