150 Quotes by Lawrence O'Donnell

I went to Harvard College, grew up in Boston, and went to high school in Boston.

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

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

Where I come from, no one settled their disagreements with bets, because no one of us had any money to bet.

You don't immediately adopt the values and the framework of this, the academically successful world, just because okay now you kids get to go to high school.

I have no idea what I would be, I really don't have the vaguest idea what I would be, if my father had remained a Boston cop. I don't have any idea what I would have thought the horizon was.

Desegregation came very painfully to the Boston schools, long after John Kelly finished high school, and the pain of desegregating Boston schools was visited entirely on the students who looked like Frederica Wilson.

I grew up a few years after John Kelly in an identical neighborhood in the other side of Boston and I went to high school in John Kelly's neighborhood. I know the neighborhood John Kelly comes from, I know the culture.

You can be outraged by what the Koch brothers do with their money in politics and you can appreciate what they contribute to hospitals and medical research, and you can do that at the same time and still retain an ability to function.