Lawrence O Donnell Quotes

#1. MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell is saying Donald Trump lied when he said he made $20 million a year off his 'Apprentice' series on NBC. NBC also denied Trump's claim, saying, 'We don't have $20 million. We're NBC.'

Jimmy Fallon

#2. If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

Milton Berle

#3. 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

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

Lawrence O'Donnell

#5. I love writing songs. One of the toughest things is structure; it just works when you use verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. And as soon as you become aware of that formula, you start to have a bad conscience when you write with that particular structure.

Rivers Cuomo

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

Lawrence O'Donnell

#7. 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

#8. If we can believe in the Gnostic gospel of Thomas, old Uncle Jesus said, If you bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don't bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth can destroy you.

Anne Lamott

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

Lawrence O'Donnell

#10. Even small acts of kindness can make a profound difference to somebody else.

Misha Collins

#11. 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

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

Lawrence O'Donnell

#13. To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.

Liam Neeson

#14. 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

#15. Safety concerns are reasonable. Banning refugees is certainly not.

Lawrence O'Donnell

#16. Go head Taggert. Take your best shot.

Lawrence O'Donnell

#17. Only those who do not fill the places they are holding slow the progress of the world

Wallace D. Wattles

#18. When my grandchildren are older and my great-grandchildren start growing up, first of all, I want them to be in Israel. I don't want them to leave the country because they have no choice.

Dan Shechtman

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

Lawrence O'Donnell

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Troubadours have always been more important and influential than theologians and bishops

Brennan Manning

#23. Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you're not careful and don't embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence.

Dawn French

#24. What I have learned from studying counterfactual history is that the law of unintended consequences always kicks in no matter how secure you are in your plan. We have to live with the historical record as it is, like it or not.

Gavriel David Rosenfeld

#25. 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

#26. To be able to forget means sanity.

Jack London

#27. 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

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

Lawrence O'Donnell

#29. 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

#30. Because.
Everything
worth anything
takes time.

Christy Hall

#31. 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

#32. I think we have a choice every single day in how we want to live our life. You wake up and you make your choice of what you want to do with your day that's going to help you achieve your dream.

Hilary Swank

#33. 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

#34. 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

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

Lawrence O'Donnell

#36. And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.

Robert Frost