Lawrence O'Donnell Quotes

Partisanship shapes the reality that people choose to see.

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say... It's like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They're all opinions.

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

There are aspects of '24' where I love its politics and aspects where I hate them.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Everyone has an opinion.

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him, he is a statesman.

It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion

I think I'm perfectly reasonable.

I think people make way too much of ratings.

People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.

Everyone's got an opinion, and not all of them are good ones.

Since my adolescence, divisive politics has bothered me.

politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

I hate perception. There's far too much of it in football

Evil is that which one believes of others.

No matter what I say, honestly, people would only judge me the way they want to.

We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.

The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the "other side.

People project their own dreams, fantasies, and prejudices onto my life. So people are either fans, or jealous, or disagree. Everybody marches to a different drummer.