I think most Republicans would rather win this election than have transformation. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The question was, have you heard from anyone on the [Donald] Trump transition team? We have not been contacted. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump is now. And we don't know what the rules are now. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
When you look at that debate stage, Mitt Romney could have dominated it maybe. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The incompetence of the [Donald] Trump transition team, the likes of which we've never seen is a bad thing. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The George Wallace campaign in 1968 was the model for the Trump campaign in 2016. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Many chiefs of staff are close, very close, to their bosses on Capitol Hill. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
That seems to be a woman who is genuinely depressed that this is the political dialogue she [Hillary Clinton] is been thrown… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
In pre-Trump Washington where the old rules applied, Rudy Giuliani could never survive the Senate confirmation process. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Let's be the Democrats we know we have always been. And maybe every once in a when an opposition that lets you… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Jeff Sessions wished he wasn't the attorney general. The president Donald Trump has the most incompetent cabinet in history, and he's unhappy… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The rise of Donald Trump is explained not so much by the hatred of Muslims, but rather the hatred of just one… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I think the fact of the matter is this is a tough moment for democrats. But it's also exciting to see so… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Melania Trump's husband tweeted this: "Arianna Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
National security adviser is not a position that requires confirmation. This is a pick that like [Donald Trump] Chief of Staff, he… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Fifty four percent of Republican voters believe President [Barack] Obama is Muslim. And 66 percent of Trump voters believe President Obama is… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The United States is and will continue to be the most important country in the world, economically, militarily, intellectually. There's nothing that… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
It is amazing that Jeff Sessions is still in the job. Any self-respecting Attorney General of the United States would have publicly… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Sixty one percent of Donald Trump's supporters believe that President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States.They believe Donald Trump's… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Every cable news channel was a very big business success before Donald Trump started lying about Barack Obama's birth certificate. And they… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Probably about 35 percent of Donald Trump's supporters do not believe that President [Barack] Obama is Muslim or that he was not… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I was looking at the Trump hits on me, I have to confess, all of which made me laugh. And I thought,… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The Republican Party is saying that the president of the United States has bosses, that the union bosses this president around -… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Michael Flynn was one of Trump's top national security advisors throughout the campaign. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I am not a liberal who is so afraid of the word that I had to change my name to progressive. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
A number of foreign policy experts distanced themselves from Donald Trump, not Michael Flynn. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Donald Trump would not lose a single voter over any report indicating that his tax plan might not work. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Donald Trump hasn't decided, and most importantly, we don't know if the old rules still apply. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I was the first person Donald Trump threatened to sue on Twitter. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I don't think Republicans are evil. I think they mostly have a different philosophy of government than I do. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Why in general, when you're putting together a White House staff and putting together a good one, you're looking for someone there… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The First Amendment protects the news media and the news media knows how to use it. Donald Trump doesn't understand it, he's… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I don't think their voices are going to change at all. And it's what Democrats have always been saying. We are stronger… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I think we should not do what the Republicans did, which is to spend eight years saying they would do absolutely nothing… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Everybody in Washington wants one of these jobs studies this book. It's called the Plum Book because the people in Washington turn… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Actually, Congress just did pass a tax plan like Donald Trump's.They passed a tax plan which some Democrats voted for, significant number… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Under the old rules, Steve Bannon could never get a security clearance. But there could be a new rule, the Trump Rule. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
How much trouble did the Democrats cause for a particular nominee on the way to actually being confirmed.And usually it's very little. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
All writers are forced to live within deadlines, and deadlines determine how good they can be. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share
The question for the Republicans running the confirmation hearings in the United States Senate is whose rules are they going to use? — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share
Prosecutors have absolutely no control over what witnesses say when they leave the grand jury room. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share
Because Republicans defected and voted with all the Democrats to reject Jeff Sessions' nomination when they discovered that when he was working as a… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share
In this case, the government will essentially be run by the people who are running it now. The top level [Barack] Obama appointees will… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share
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… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share
The Trump view of immigration defies our history. Immigration is a transaction that has historically benefited the country. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share
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.… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share
If a reader comes across a story that makes them cry, you can be sure that the writer felt every single thing that makes… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share
National security advisors are not there to be advocates, generally. They're not there to be partisans, they're not there to be ideologues. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share
Never once has Republican world said hey, maybe we should look into how police officers are carrying out their solemn public responsibility to serve… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share
When Ronald Reagan nominated Jeff Sessions for federal district court judgeship, the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected his nomination. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share
Show business comes with wonderfully long vacations, like the life of a college professor. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share
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… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share
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… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share
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