Alan Colmes

Journalist

51 Quotes

I am proud of the Fox News Channel.

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

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.

Mourning never ends for those who've faced unimaginable losses.

To be successful in talk radio, you have to have a conservative audience as well. Not enough liberals listen to it.

Benghazi is not a scandal; Benghazi was a tragedy.

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.

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.

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.

Even if everything its detractors say about Fox were true, the most liberal of liberal attitudes would be that one would get credit for being in the lion's den.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

If you're going to make the argument that Fox is conservative, you can't make it very easily unless you diminish my role.

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

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

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

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