Lawrence O'Donnell

There are people who hate me, there are people who like me, and they're both right. I think people hate me for…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

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

— 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

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

— Lawrence O'Donnell

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

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Lieutenant General Michael Flynn ran the defense intelligence agency from 2012 to 2014. He served as a top national intelligence adviser to…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I am confident that just as a America`s commitment to the transatlantic alliance has endured for seven decades, whether it`s been under…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

The rumored frontrunner for [Donald] Trump`s Secretary of State is former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani who of course has no…

— 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've lived a life of unplanned freelance employment.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I love some of the most hateful tweets. I think they're very funny. In the negative attacks on me, there are frequently…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

According to the old rules, Senator Jeff Sessions could not be confirmed by the United States Senate because in fact he wasn`t.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I grew up a few years after John Kelly in an identical neighborhood in the other side of Boston and I went…

— 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

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

Publicly, defense lawyers cling to the text book theory that the defendant has no burden of proof and that no negative inference…

— 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

We are in a new era, a new era where campaign rules certainly don`t apply, and who knows what other rules don`t…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

It is highly likely that one of the two of them [ Donald Trump and Ted Cruz ] is going to be…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

You don't immediately adopt the values and the framework of this, the academically successful world, just because okay now you kids get…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

At 'The West Wing,' I cast newscasters, and when you put out a casting call for actors, half of the people who…

— 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

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

I think what has worked very well is Rachel Maddow just being Rachel. I don't think there's anyone who could give Rachel…

— Lawrence O'Donnell