Keith Olbermann

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.