Lawrence O'Donnell Quotes

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.

Watergate was a constitutional crisis of the highest order.

I will not vote in favor of Senator Sessions' nomination for attorney general.

America is very fortunate to have Jeff Sessions as Attorney General.

Based on my experience and record, I'm the best person to take Jeff Sessions' place.

I have said for a long time that I thought the president would be best served if the attorney general resigned so I think it's the right thing to do.

Strom Thurmond, the former segregationist candidate for president was the Republican Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1986 and he tried to get Jeff Sessions' nomination through that committee, but he couldn't.

The "New York Times" interview shows that the president Donald Trump believes he can get through the special prosecutor's investigation of obstruction of justice with the simple words "I don't remember". Jeff Sessions has been publicly attacked by the president. And in the middle of that attack, the president told all of his teammates who were in the Oval Office that day how he is going to testify when Robert Mueller asks him under oath if he kicked all of them out of the room when he asked to speak with James Comey alone.

I think the Democrats are right to protest, but I don't think Jeff Sessions is so far out of the range of normalcy that he shouldn't be confirmed.

Rudy Giuliani also be mentioned as a possible Attorney General. Is it fair to say that he would like to serve President Trump?

President-Elect [Donald] Trump has not ruled out seeking a special prosecutor for Hillary Clinton, says he has other priorities.

In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.

Senator Jeff Sessions is reportedly on the [Donald] Trump shortlist to be either the next Secretary of Defense or the next Attorney General of the United States.

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

A lot of my opposition to President Obama's policies had behind them 5, 6, 7 years of bad policies that made America less safe in my regard.

I don't make any secret of the fact that I'm closer to the Republicans than to the Democrats. But even under a President Hillary Clinton, US foreign policy toward Moscow would probably be more critical and confrontational. I hope it isn't too late for that.

Donald Trump is an unconventional president doing unconventional things. And the Trump phone call with the president of Taiwan is not something that the traditional establishment would see as a good idea to do, especially when there's not necessarily a policy behind it.

Tip O'Neill, even after Ronald Reagan became president, called him "an amiable dunce," which is what the Democrats always do.

The Donald Trump call in the president of Taiwan and of itself, as Henry Kissinger said, hasn't created some tremendous trouble in China. But what we don't know is whether this is just posturing or whether this is a policy change.

Hillary Clinton will be elected to be impeached.

Rick Perry has made so many gaffes lately, it is hard to tell if he's running against President Obama or Joe Biden.

He spent more time on the road to Damascus than a Syrian camel driver. And we thought nobody could fill John Kerry's flip-flops! ... [Romney's record was] anything but conservative until he changed all the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for President.

It was a tough press conference for President Bush. He spent the first ten minutes trying to pronounce Fallujah. ... Bush insisted that Iraq is not Vietnam. Of course not, he avoided Vietnam.

The president of the United States, the most famous person in the world, maybe in the whole galaxy - in a long time - he had to spend like a billion dollars to set the record straight.

Today, President Barack Obama promised to 'detect and pursue' American tax evaders, as opposed to his first 100 days, in which he detected and nominated American tax evaders.