Lawrence O'Donnell Quotes

In America, we have this bell curve of certain values. And then we have another bell curve of different values, which is the Republican Party. And they're out of sync right now.

Conservatives have to be more than just Liberals who are good at math.

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

Senator Brown and I have different philosophies as represented in our different ratings: I am a conservative, and he is a liberal.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'

The difference between Democrats and Republicans is like the difference between Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dummer.

… the two factions (of the Republican Party) are at daggers drawn over government’s role, which one side sees as indispensable, the other as insidious..

The difference between a Democrat and Republican is that Democrats fight to make sure everybody has an opportunity to succeed, and the Republicans are strangled by their right-wing extremists.

There are many ideas that we will never agree on. The left and the right have different ways of approaching governance, based on contrasting philosophies. But many of the ultimate goals - economic prosperity, better health care and education, etc. - are the same. We just don't share the same vision of how to achieve them.

There was the slow discovery for me in the early '80s that Republicans are people too... That Republicans are perfectly reasonable people... and that Republicans can be right about something.

There are things that some Democrats say I agree with and some things that I disagree with. And it's the same with the Republicans.

Republicans have always tolerated greater intellectual diversity than Democrats.

The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.

In actual fact, I have always been a conservative cross, borne sadly by liberal friends.

I was ranked the second most conservative member in the House.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

There's no such thing as a partisan base.

Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

I really don't think there's a lack of good will between members of the parties. I go back a long way with a lot of Republicans, so I don't think it's personal. But there does seem to be a much greater gap in both the philosophy and emphasis on partisan victories as opposed to policy development.

In my state, the Republican Party was the most progressive party.