Keith Olbermann

“Sir, have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”

“The great thing about sports is you can't lie. You can't fake it. You're either good or you're not.”

“Good night, and good luck.”

“This is not about left versus right. This is about right versus wrong.”

“The job of a journalist is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”

“Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.”

“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”

“The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity.”

“You can have your own opinion, but you can't have your own facts.”

“The problem isn't that they're lying; it's that they don't even know what the truth is anymore.”

“We did not authorize this war. We did not authorize this torture. We did not authorize this spying. We are Americans, and we are better than this.”

“These are the times that try men's souls, and they are also the times that define them.”

“The second-worst thing you can do is to be wrong. The worst thing you can do is to be wrong and not admit it.”

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

“This country was founded by a bunch of guys who were sick of getting pushed around.”

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”

“We are a nation of laws, not of men, and we are not a nation of one man.”

“Our rights are not gifts from the government. They are our birthright.”

“Fascism is not a political ideology; it is a disease.”

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”