Lawrence O'Donnell Quotes

There's chaos out there, and chaos means opportunity.

Certainly another Brad Sherman might be annoying, but it isn't something society doesn't know how to deal with. But a new level of human being is something else.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

The past guarantees you nothing in the future if the rules change.

I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

The world is on a bumpy journey to a new destination and the New Normal.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.

In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

There's nothing efficient about innovation.

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

The cliche in American politics is that one week is an eternity.

A week is a long time in politics.

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

We are going through a terrible crisis. We do not know exactly what is going to happen, but in our hearts the pendulum of the seismograph is already swinging.

A week is a long time in politics. A month is an eternity.

It is not new and it is not order.

Today, as an old order passes, the new world is more free but less stable.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.

There is a feeling that events are in the air; all that is unpredictable is their timing. Perhaps we shall see several more years of peace, but it is equally possible that overnight some tremendous upheaval will happen.

Anything that keeps me off balance is vital.

People are tired of constant movement, improvisation, and wild scrambling when plans fail.