Lawrence O'Donnell Quotes

The fourth largest city in America is under water tonight and we don't know when we will see it again. We don't know how long it will take for the waters to subside.

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

169 House Democrats signed a letter to the President-elect [Donald Trump] urging him to "rescind this appointment [of Steve Bannon ] immediately."

Look, [Mitt] Romney comes from a religion founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist. And he comes from that lineage and says, 'I respect this religion fully.'

On Twitter, Donald Trump has called me a "poor journalist, stupid, a very dumb guy, the dumbest political commentator on television, and the dumbest man on TV."

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

Something the committee had not done in 50 years. Jeff Sessions is now the Chairman of the Committee that rejected him.

When Ronald Reagan nominated Jeff Sessions for federal district court judgeship, the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected his nomination.

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

The question for the Republicans running the confirmation hearings in the United States Senate is whose rules are they going to use?

We are in a new era, a new era where campaign rules certainly don't apply, and who knows what other rules don't apply.

Rudy Giuliani needed to feel safe because he turned his life into a public mess. A public mess that the "New York Tabloids" covered daily.

The Daily Beast reports today that if Steve Bannon is denied a security clearance, the President could simply overrule that denial and order that security clearance.

Melania Trump's husband tweeted this: "Arianna Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man. He made a good decision."

Do away with the corporate loopholes that allow major profitable corporations to stash their money in the Cayman Islands and not pay a nickel in some cases in federal income taxes.

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 get caught in perjury.

Jeff Sessions wished he wasn't the attorney general. The president Donald Trump has the most incompetent cabinet in history, and he's unhappy with only one of them. Only Jeff Sessions.

I remember the first few months of the [Ronald] Reagan administration when all sorts of things happened too fast. We cannot allow that to happen.

I'd like to curl up in a ball like Hillary [Clinton]said she would but she is out. And I think we all have to go do that. The fact of the matter is we don't have the luxury of pulling back from this.

I think we should not do what the Republicans did, which is to spend eight years saying they would do absolutely nothing because we do stand for the country.

In recent years, we've made historic investments in NATO, increased America's presence in Europe.

The FBI background check would show that Rudolph Giuliani had an out-of-control affair with his Press Secretary while he was mayor of New York.

This year [2015] has shown with painful clarity that our existing systems, approaches, and funding, are inadequate to the task at hand, and to the amount of human suffering that is ongoing.

According to an analysis by the Tax Policy Center, Donald Trump's tax plan is going to increase the national debt by more than 50 percent over ten years.

You have two people who I would classify as extremists. Donald Trump because of his behavior and Ted Cruz because of his views, leading the Republican Party.

I said, we should allow no Syrian refugees into the country, not even women or children.

It is lunacy to be bringing refugees into this country who may be terrorists trying to murder Americans.

I don't think their voices are going to change at all. And it's what Democrats have always been saying. We are stronger together, but we're going to fight like heck if anybody tries to divide us.

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