Lawrence O'Donnell Quotes

The left understands the media. The left wields it, and the right sits on the sidelines and complains.

Theodore Roosevelt may have invented the sound byte.

Everyone in politics turns to the press, if only to manipulate it or deflect it.

Trump loves the media. Trump understands the power it has and, accordingly, loves the people who have media power.

I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.

Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.

[Ronald Reagan] turned the White House into a soft focus TV studio.

What matters to the press matters perforce to politicians.

Journalism is now not only reflecting what is happening, it is affecting what is happening. Governments all over the world watch CNN.

Many newspapers have become players as well as spectators in the political debate.

Politics is television and whoever masters it is likely to win.

Every successful president has suffered imputations that he has in sinister fashion charmed the press or used a new medium of communication (radio, television, the Internet) to claim an undeserved standing.

Theodore Roosevelt owes more to newspapers than any other man of his time, or possibly of any other time.

There is a feedback loop between Trump and TV that is both good and bad.

The fact that a TV star can become president should be old news since [Ronald] Reagan, and old news since the Nixon-Kennedy debates - which the famous story, whether or not you agree, is that if you listened on the radio, Nixon won; if you listened on TV, Kennedy won.

Donald Trump has the media wrapped around his little finger. And this is a contributing factor to why so many people are bothered and upset, because even in the Republican establishment, the media is looked at as a legitimate player in the power arrangement of politics.

The power of the media is really the only new issue in the last 50 years, probably.

The media can't take Trump out, and that scares the heck out of everybody, particularly in the Republican side.

We live in a media culture and whoever controls and influences and uses media the best has the power for change.

To be in the media is to be in the wings. Being in politics is being on the stage.

Political biography is in the doldrums. No one wants to read 800 pages or so of cradle-to-grave dead politics, especially if it's familiar stuff and has all been written about before.

I think the media has some responsibility to bear for people becoming more conservative.

In 2009, my father wanted me to join politics. I told him, 'Why should I jump into the dirt and grime of politics when I can have politicians come to me as owner of a media group?' Then my father gave me an ultimatum.