Lawrence O'Donnell Quotes

“Go head Taggert. Take your best shot.”

— Lawrence O'Donnell

“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.'”

— Lawrence O'Donnell

“The Republican Party is saying that the President of the United States has bosses, that the union bosses this President around, the unions boss him around. Does that sound to you like they are trying to consciously or subconsciously deliver the racist message that, of course, of course a black man can't be the real boss?”

— Lawrence O'Donnell

While alcohol ... continues to wreak havoc in America, supported by a $6 billion-a-year alcohol industry advertising campaign extolling the joy of inebriation, the far less harmful drug of marijuana remains illegal and continues to ruin people's lives - only if they are caught possessing and convicted of that crime.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

“Donald Trump did his usual softball interview on "Fox News" where the interviewer agreed with Trump that using that Yiddish vulgarity is going to be OK for him.”

— Lawrence O'Donnell

“It is highly likely that one of the two of them [ Donald Trump and Ted Cruz ] is going to be the nominee. This is a - look here, what is this - what this is really is a prescription for remaking the Republican Party.”

— Lawrence O'Donnell

“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.”

— Lawrence O'Donnell

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

— Lawrence O'Donnell

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.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

According to the international organization for migration, more than 1 million migrants have arrived in Europe this year, the most since World War II. Half of them were Syrian.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

The rise of Donald Trump is explained not so much by the hatred of Muslims, but rather the hatred of just one Muslim. The one who is not a Muslim.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

“Safety concerns are reasonable. Banning refugees is certainly not.”

— Lawrence O'Donnell

My pick for Best Political Move of the Year, which is the decisive (ph) and this means it is actually the best political movement is Bill Clinton getting on the phone and encouraging Donald Trump to run for the president.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

“When you look at that debate stage, Mitt Romney could have dominated it maybe.”

— Lawrence O'Donnell

“My Worst Political Move of the 2015 Year. John Boehner inviting Benjamin Netanyahu to address the joint session of Congress.”

— Lawrence O'Donnell

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

— Lawrence O'Donnell

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

— Lawrence O'Donnell

“Forty four percent of Republican voters believe President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States. They believe he is not a legal citizen of the United States.They believe his presidency is unconstitutional.”

— Lawrence O'Donnell

The [Donald] Trump plan would increase the national debt a little over a $1 trillion a year, the Trump plan would reduce taxes at all income levels with, of course, the biggest tax cuts going to the richest taxpayers as they always do.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

“Donald Trump would not lose a single voter over any report indicating that his tax plan might not work.”

— Lawrence O'Donnell

“The Democrats - Democrats on board, the Congress said tax policy.But their tax policy was pretty bad, that added $800 billion to the deficit.”

— Lawrence O'Donnell

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.

— Lawrence O'Donnell