Lawrence O'Donnell Quotes

Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery.

I'm going to use the White House and every tool at my disposal as your president to make the case that patriotism is profitable.

What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but "who is sitting in" - and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change.

Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.

It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues.

Somebody actually said that I'm the only entity on earth, other than rogue states, that has received an apology from the White House.

I really don't think there's a world in which you can do anything with anybody. Because we're in the world of the White House, I think there are certain things you can do, and larger things that can happen, but I don't think you can do anything.

The evil is in the White House at the present time.

The White House admitted that Vice President Biden's endorsement of gay marriage forced him to come out in favor of it. So in a related story millions of Americans are trying to get Biden hooked on pot.

The White House says they will release the Osama bin Laden death photo. Better yet, they're doing it on a set of limited edition commemorative plates.

I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history

We're going to put sanity back into the White House.

We'll keep guessing at what it might be that he's hiding. But I think the question is, were Donald Trump ever to get near the White House, what would be those conflicts?

Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business.

Essentially the Obama administration sabotaged Trump's transition to the White House. They were doing this during the transition. While Obama's talking about, "I want the smoothest transition in the history of transitions," he was sabotaging it even then.

At heart, Sussman was a theoretician. In another age, he might have been a Talmudic scholar. He had cultivated a Socratic method, zinging question after question at the reporters: Who moved over from Commerce to CRP with Stans? What about Mitchell's secretary? Why won't anybody say when Liddy went to the White House or who worked with him there? Mitchell and Stans both ran the budget committee, right? What does that tell you? Then Sussman would puff on his pipe, a satisfied grin on his face.

The big story now is that President Bush is coming under attack for his service in the National Guard. The White House said, 'no no,' that they have payroll records to show that he served in the National Guard. But today, the commanding officers can't remember seeing Bush between May and October of '72. President Bush said, 'Remember me? I'm the drunk guy. Remember me?'

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

At the White House, they caught another fence jumper earlier today. It was Obama trying to get out.

The White House encouraged Tom Brady to be more of a role model. They would've said more, but there was a drunken Secret Service agent streaking across the Rose Garden.

When Big Meech and everybody got indicted, hustling died. Keep it trill.

While President Bush was out of town Hillary Clinton stopped by the White House on Friday for an important meeting with her decorator.

But I was thinking about this, the Obamas want to adopt a stray dog from the pound. And I think that is admirable. I believe the last president to bring a stray dog into the White House got impeached.

Until the President produces a responsible deficit reduction plan, I'm not going to the White House to negotiate with myself.

I just know that what happened in the Clinton White House should never have happened to anyone.