Lawrence O'Donnell

“Most politicians are more frustrated by the way their own party disappoints them than the way the other party opposes them. They expect opposition from the opposing party. That’s the way it’s supposed to be. Dealing with that opposition is a full-time job, and they expect to have the support of their own party in that eternal struggle. But when their own party turns against them, disagrees with them, or just goes off in another direction, they feel unsupported by their party and sometimes betrayed.”
― Lawrence O'Donnell, Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics

“with American police killing about six hundred people a year, an October 1981 report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights concluded that “no effective protection from police misconduct seems to exist for the individual citizen.”
― Lawrence O'Donnell, Deadly Force: A Police Shooting and My Family's Search for the Truth