150 Quotes by Lawrence O'Donnell

Trying to turn the Congress the President on the Iran deal, – it’s one thing to do that – it’s a giant moment in Israeli politics to decide to do that.

I will never forget the day in Washington when I met John Lewis by phone when he called me to ask about something. And the phone just shook in my hand. I couldn’t believe that John Lewis was on the other end of the line.

Eugene McCarthy was the last American presidential candidate who thought flattering an audience’s intelligence was the way to win their hearts and their votes.

We’re going to raise the estate tax for wealthy, very wealthy people.

The screening in the United States is the toughest screening of any country in the world in terms of refugees, that accepts refugees. And of course there are those that don’t accept any, or ever have, no matter what kind they are.

Lawyers know that certain witnesses are simply not going to be cooperative and are not going to answer the questions. And what matters at that point is what is your question? Because everything you want the jury to know should be in your question, or everything you want the jury to wonder about should be in your question.

Prosecutors have absolutely no control over what witnesses say when they leave the grand jury room.

Many chiefs of staff are close, very close, to their bosses on Capitol Hill.

I tend not to look at Twitter in the morning; I try to force myself not to, for time management. I'll look at it on the way to work.