150 Quotes by Lawrence O'Donnell

NBC has created a monster and it is called Donald Trump.

The worst teacher in America could never do as much damage as the worst police officer in America. But the right wing has never even been slightly curious about evaluating the job performance of police officers.

Successful presidential campaigns follow a two-part strategy. For Republicans, Richard Nixon described it as running to the right in the primaries and running back to the center in the general election. For Democrats, the idea is to go to the left in the primaries, then to the center.

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

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

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

The First Amendment protects the news media and the news media knows how to use it. Donald Trump doesn't understand it, he's never going to understand it.

The pundit world, having spent years in awe of Karl Rove, will never understand how bad he is at his White House job.

People like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been very busy educating America about just how much socialism we have, from Social Security to Medicare to public schools to public universities, and how much we love that. The truth is that there is no pure socialist or capitalist economy on earth.