Democracy Quotes by Lawrence O'Donnell

10 Democracy quotes by Lawrence O'Donnell

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Lawrence O'Donnell’s ten quotes on democracy capture his sharp commentary on political life. The collection is short, yet it mirrors his knack for breaking down complex civic issues into relatable observations.

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The Democrats - Democrats on board, the Congress said tax policy.But their tax policy was pretty bad, that added $800 billion to…

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I don't think Republicans are evil. I think they mostly have a different philosophy of government than I do.

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How much trouble did the Democrats cause for a particular nominee on the way to actually being confirmed.And usually it's very little.

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The question for the Republicans running the confirmation hearings in the United States Senate is whose rules are they going to use?

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I think we should not do what the Republicans did, which is to spend eight years saying they would do absolutely nothing…

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I think most Republicans would rather win this election than have transformation.

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Successful presidential campaigns follow a two-part strategy. For Republicans, Richard Nixon described it as running to the right in the primaries and…

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Republicans believe that tax cuts can build buildings, all sorts of miraculous things. A lot of Democrats and liberals believe that spending…

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There was the slow discovery for me in the early '80s that Republicans are people too... That Republicans are perfectly reasonable people...…

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Let's be the Democrats we know we have always been. And maybe every once in a when an opposition that lets you…

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The question for the Republicans running the confirmation hearings in the United States Senate is whose rules are they going to use?

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Prosecutors have absolutely no control over what witnesses say when they leave the grand jury room.

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Because Republicans defected and voted with all the Democrats to reject Jeff Sessions' nomination when they discovered that when he was working as a…

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In this case, the government will essentially be run by the people who are running it now. The top level [Barack] Obama appointees will…

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I've never understood the value of putting someone on television to lie, knowing that they're going to lie ahead of time, knowing that that…

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The Trump view of immigration defies our history. Immigration is a transaction that has historically benefited the country.

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I don't think anybody knows it was Russia that broke into the DNC. She [Hillary Clinton] is saying Russia, Russia, Russia. Maybe it was.…

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If a reader comes across a story that makes them cry, you can be sure that the writer felt every single thing that makes…

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National security advisors are not there to be advocates, generally. They're not there to be partisans, they're not there to be ideologues.

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Never once has Republican world said hey, maybe we should look into how police officers are carrying out their solemn public responsibility to serve…

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When Ronald Reagan nominated Jeff Sessions for federal district court judgeship, the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected his nomination.

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