Quotes from Alan Colmes

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

On my radio show at night, people will sometimes - conservatives will call and say, 'You know what, I'm really sorry I cast my vote for President Bush.' And we play Brenda Lee and 'I'm Sorry' and ask them to sing along.

I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.

People say to me, 'Why don't you fight fire with fire?' You fight fire with water, not fire.

The fact is that we are, compared to most other places, a very liberal country.

If you're a conservative, you think I'm Satan.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I am proud of the Fox News Channel.

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.

Fox is fair and balanced.

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

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

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

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.

'Liberal' is a great word - from the root, 'liberty,' which means free.

Issue by issue, if I were a Congressman, I would receive the highest rating from liberal think-tank Americans For Democratic Action.

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

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