House Quotes by Lawrence O'Donnell

9 House quotes by Lawrence O'Donnell

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Lawrence O'Donnell treats a house as a microcosm of larger social issues, and these nine short statements showcase his sharp, thoughtful commentary. Even in a modest set, each quote feels like a concise editorial insight.

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Why in general, when you're putting together a White House staff and putting together a good one, you're looking for someone there…

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Henry Kissinger spent years negotiating the terms of our surrender there and ended up with a deal that he could have gotten…

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Senator Bernie Sanders saying in effect that he wants Washington to operate under the old rules, where someone like Steve Bannon would…

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Someone who traffics in much more than what Jeff Sessions said back then will be with the president every day in the…

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The pundit world, having spent years in awe of Karl Rove, will never understand how bad he is at his White House…

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The Republican base - the Evangelical get-out-the-vote troops - are going to be devastated when they discover how many closeted gay Republicans…

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National security advisors, like White House Chiefs of Staff, their job generally if they're - if they're competent and qualified and effective…

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169 House Democrats signed a letter to the President-elect [Donald Trump] urging him to "rescind this appointment [of Steve Bannon ] immediately."

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His [Rudolph Giuliani] marital life became unhinged with his wife kicking him out of the mayor's residence of Gracie mansion. That he…

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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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Show business comes with wonderfully long vacations, like the life of a college professor.

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It is amazing that Jeff Sessions is still in the job. Any self-respecting Attorney General of the United States would have publicly resigned as…

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Melania Trump's husband tweeted this: "Arianna Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a…

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