Lawrence O'Donnell

Senator Jeff Sessions is reportedly on the [Donald] Trump shortlist to be either the next Secretary of Defense or the next Attorney…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

The [Donald] Trump transition team is already functioning as the worst transition team we have ever seen. And the good news is…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

So many people, so many amateurs like Donald Trump believe that "I don't recall" is an absolutely fail-safe position and you can't…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

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

One of the things that I see on Twitter is that people think they know what you think about things you haven't…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

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

He sits beside the ranking Democrat Patrick Leahy who voted against Jeff Session's nomination in that committee in 1986.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Melania Trump did not object or make a speech when her husband retweeted this. "If Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband, what…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

That's why somebody like a Tim Ryan can go to a bar in Youngstown just as well as in Congress and talk…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

When you get off to an African country like Malawi - which is pretty removed from everything and pretty seriously off the…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I never like the TV or movie Harvard characters. The fact of the matter is that most people who go to Harvard…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Look, [Mitt] Romney comes from a religion founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist. And he comes from…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

My pick for Best Political Move of the Year, which is the decisive (ph) and this means it is actually the best…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

The [Donald] Trump plan would increase the national debt a little over a $1 trillion a year, the Trump plan would reduce…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Around the courthouse when defense lawyers are chatting about their cases, the only question they ask each other is can you put…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

The truth is that people - many people are concerned about this, but this is not the first time in America this…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

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

Michael Flynn not exactly cut from that cloth. Someone who has very strong views about almost everything in the realm of national…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

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

I believe we stand strongly against having the tax code used to make the income disparity in America any worse than it…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

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

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I don't for one second spend any time thinking about carefully ingratiating myself with someone for the future.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

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

— Lawrence O'Donnell

The incompetence of the [Donald] Trump transition team, the likes of which we've never seen is a bad thing.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

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

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

According to the international organization for migration, more than 1 million migrants have arrived in Europe this year, the most since World…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Bill O'Reilly is a socialist. He is in favor of Medicare, he is in favor of Social Security. Those are socialist programs.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

What MSNBC is, what cable news prime time has become in the shows that get the ratings, is the oped page of…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

The fourth largest city in America is under water tonight and we don't know when we will see it again. We don't…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

He addressed a black lawyer as "boy". That's why Jeff Sessions couldn't get through Senate confirmation process under the old rules followed…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

The question was, have you heard from anyone on the [Donald] Trump transition team? We have not been contacted.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

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

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

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

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Staten Island is set off completely by itself in its own world, and that's one of the fascinating things about it, dramatically.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

The longer incompetent people delay in doing what they're doing, we're always better off whenever incompetent people are delaying what they're going…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Roger Ailes's effect on politics was much longer-lasting than Richard Nixon's, even though Nixon was elected president twice.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I was an extreme leftist-anarchist. Now, I guess I'm a European socialist who's locked into American citizenship, without complaint.

— Lawrence O'Donnell