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Lawrence O Donnell Inspirational Quotes (74)

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Forty four percent of Republican voters believe President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States. They believe he is not a legal citizen of the United States.They believe his presidency is unconstitutional.
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We are in a new era, a new era where campaign rules certainly don`t apply, and who knows what other rules don`t apply.
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Everybody in Washington wants one of these jobs studies this book. It`s called the Plum Book because the people in Washington turn the pages looking for the plum that they want, the job that they want.
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Let`s be the Democrats we know we have always been. And maybe every once in a when an opposition that lets you get even more tougher and clear about what you`re about. I think that`s a good thing for Democrats.
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Because Republicans defected and voted with all the Democrats to reject Jeff Sessions` nomination when they discovered that when he was working as a prosecutor in Alabama, he called the NAACP Un-American.
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Trying to turn the Congress the President on the Iran deal, - it`s one thing to do that - it`s a giant moment in Israeli politics to decide to do that.
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I will never forget the day in Washington when I met John Lewis by phone when he called me to ask about something. And the phone just shook in my hand. I couldn`t believe that John Lewis was on the other end of the line.
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Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.
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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.
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The [Donald] Trump transition team is already functioning as the worst transition team we have ever seen. And the good news is the slower they do their work, the better off we are.
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On Twitter, Donald Trump has called me a poor journalist, stupid, a very dumb guy, the dumbest political commentator on television, and the dumbest man on TV.
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According to the old rules, Senator Jeff Sessions could not be confirmed by the United States Senate because in fact he wasn`t.
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Fifty four percent of Republican voters believe President [Barack] Obama is Muslim. And 66 percent of Trump voters believe President Obama is Muslim. If you hear anyone trying to explain the rise of Donald Trump without including that fact, then you`re hearing someone who doesn`t know what they`re talking about.
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Lieutenant General Michael Flynn would fit into that broader pattern.
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The longer incompetent people delay in doing what they`re doing, we`re always better off whenever incompetent people are delaying what they`re going to do.
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Michael Flynn is a very controversial figure for a variety of reasons.
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Rudy Giuliani is on the list [of Secretary of State ] not because of competence, not because of foreign policy experience, he`s on most entirely because of loyalty to Donald Trump.
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He sits beside the ranking Democrat Patrick Leahy who voted against Jeff Session`s nomination in that committee in 1986.
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In pre-Trump Washington where the old rules applied, Rudy Giuliani could never survive the Senate confirmation process.
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So many people, so many amateurs like Donald Trump believe that I don`t recall is an absolutely fail-safe position and you can`t get caught in perjury.
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I think we should not do what the Republicans did, which is to spend eight years saying they would do absolutely nothing because we do stand for the country.
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Rudy Giuliani needed to feel safe because he turned his life into a public mess. A public mess that the New York Tabloids covered daily.
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The truth is that people - many people are concerned about this, but this is not the first time in America this has happened. There were a significant number of people who didn`t want Jewish refugees before World War II, or even during World War II.
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If there is a big bill to do infrastructure improvements and it is about working people, let`s do that. But let`s absolutely fight with every ounce that we have to protect healthcare and make it even better.
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