Television Quotes by Lawrence O'Donnell

9 Television quotes by Lawrence O'Donnell

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For a swift, opinion‑driven look at television’s influence on politics, O'Donnell’s nine quotes provide his seasoned perspective in a compact format.

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Nixon's adroit use of television in 1952 was well ahead of its time.

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The thing about live TV is that it simply has to be done, there's no space for procrastination.

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There's times where you can watch television and say, 'Look at that cheesy thing they're doing for ratings,' and you're right.

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I discovered, to my surprise, that writing for live television made me a faster writer.

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If you have five weeks to write an episode of television or seven months to write a movie or several years to…

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Every single television product has the ambition to chase ratings, every one of them. Many have other ambitions, for many, ratings are…

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If I write a cop show, it's not up to me to decide how different it is from 'Law & Order.' I…

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Anything anyone wants to say about me is fair. There's not a single thing that any viewer has ever said about anything…

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My biggest surprise of the year does involve Donald Trump and it involves his money. And I am one of the prominent…

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All writers are forced to live within deadlines, and deadlines determine how good they can be.

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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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