“Roger Ailes's effect on politics was much longer-lasting than Richard ...” — Lawrence O'Donnell Quote

Roger Ailes's effect on politics was much longer-lasting than Richard Nixon's, even though Nixon was elected president twice.

What MSNBC is, what cable news prime time has become in the shows that get the ratings, is the oped page of the newspaper.

Nixon's adroit use of television in 1952 was well ahead of its time.

I've never done anything that I need to be doing tomorrow. If someone says, 'We no longer want you here,' I won't show up again. It was true at 'The West Wing.' It was true in the Senate.

I have no broadcasting training. No one's ever said to me, 'This is how you read a Teleprompter.' They just pointed to it and said, 'It's over there.'

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.

At times, President Trump has behaved far worse than Nixon did.

We began to see the renovation of our offices as a subtle part of the Nixon war against the press.

Nixon was the beginning of people not trusting politics.