Top 33 Alan Colmes Quotes

I can be just as effective with a quick retort or a one-liner than with a big paragraph.

I’m a broadcaster who happens to be liberal, and not the other way around.

‘Collective’ sounds like communism, but we do work and live in a society where there is a collective well-being.

Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.

Dignified and respectful quietude speaks much louder than pomp and circumstance when it comes to remembering those who died.

I don’t delude myself into thinking I’ll bring anyone around to my way of thinking, especially Sean Hannity.

My side, I am a liberal more than a Democrat.

I don’t think what you hear on talk radio is representative of America.

Christians get trees. Jews get bushes. To stay in good standing with the Tribe, you’ve got to refer to a Christmas tree as a Hanukkah bush.

‘Liberal’ is a great word – from the root, ‘liberty,’ which means free.

Thankfully, we live in country, unlike Russia, where we have First Amendment rights.

We live in a liberal country. If you came here from Iraq or Iran, you really would think that we are quite a liberal country.

Rush Limbaugh advocating for objectivity is like Donald Trump advocating for humility.

I grew up in a nonpolitical family. My mother basically hated everybody.

I’m not an angry person. I get my point out, I’m true to what I believe, and I sleep well at night.

Almost everything I think we’ve accomplished for the good of the country has been because of liberals against conservative opposition.

Change is always something you have to go through.

Air America Radio was thinking of hiring me, but they discovered something in my past that didn’t sit well with them: radio experience.

There is no asterisk in the Constitution that says ‘except for hate speech.’

I save all my good e-mails. Listen to this one: ‘You liberals should be deported.’

I’m quite moderate.

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.

In high school, I never felt in with the in-crowd.

We live in a liberally free country founded by people who were liberal. They were beyond liberal – they were revolutionaries.

Christmas brings us great music: Everything from Handel’s ‘Messiah’ to ‘White Christmas,’ to ‘I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.’

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.

I did standup comedy. I opened once for Jay Leno.

I feel quite lucky to have the platforms I have on both television and radio.

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.

A lot of people listen to Rush Limbaugh just because he’s a great entertainer.

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.

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.

I think there are some liberals who are extremely biased about Fox News and wish to shun it or wish to criticize any liberal who appears on Fox News. That, to me, is not a particularly liberal attitude.