Alan Colmes Quotes
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I always wanted to be on the radio. But my background is more entertainment than journalism.
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I don't judge my effectiveness by how many words I say. I think liberals often see nuances in things... Conservatives tend to see things in black and white. It gives them an air of certainty and conviction that might make them more comfortable to watch.
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I'm not an angry person. I get my point out, I'm true to what I believe, and I sleep well at night.
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I save all my good e-mails. Listen to this one: 'You liberals should be deported.'
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I don't delude myself into thinking I'll bring anyone around to my way of thinking, especially Sean Hannity.
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'Liberal' is a great word - from the root, 'liberty,' which means free.
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I will continue to speak out against the views of both Limbaugh and Hannity when I feel it's warranted, meeting their free speech with my own. But I will never forget that, without them, I'd have a much smaller platform on which to do it.
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We live in a liberally free country founded by people who were liberal. They were beyond liberal - they were revolutionaries.
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Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.
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I grew up in a nonpolitical family. My mother basically hated everybody.
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If you're a conservative, you think I'm Satan.
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Why preach to the choir? You reach more independents and even more Democrats on Fox News given their huge audience than you would on other networks. So I'm grateful to have that opportunity to have that platform.
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Rush Limbaugh advocating for objectivity is like Donald Trump advocating for humility.
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Genius, scholar, and war hero though he is, you have to admit - or maybe you should think about admitting - that George Bush might have rushed things a little in invading Iraq.
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I am proud of the Fox News Channel.
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A lot of people listen to Rush Limbaugh just because he's a great entertainer.
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I can be just as effective with a quick retort or a one-liner than with a big paragraph.
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Talk radio can't work unless you have the kind of independence you get by being part of an independent news network. You can't be beholden to an agenda, and that's what I like about Fox: It doesn't have one.
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The fact is that we are, compared to most other places, a very liberal country.
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We are living out the liberal dream of our founders. The Constitution, the very liberal document - we have gone beyond English common law, which was the basis of law in the West.
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I think most people have that crazy uncle they sit at Thanksgiving dinner with: someone they disagree with politically but love them anyway.
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I'm a broadcaster who happens to be liberal, and not the other way around.
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Christmas brings us great music: Everything from Handel's 'Messiah' to 'White Christmas,' to 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.'
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If I, as a liberal, didn't speak out against those who would squelch the free speech of conservatives, I wouldn't deserve to call myself a liberal.