Jon Lovett Quotes

Jon Lovett

Profession : Producer

Birth : August 17, 1982

Every technology company should have a red button somewhere in the headquarters where, if they realize they've caused more societal harm than they expected and done more harm than good, they press the button, and the company dissolves instantly.

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Humor connects us, especially in politics. It's a way of surprising one another with shared context and experience.

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It's so unfair that Barack Obama, this cool, charming guy, also has good comedic timing.

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More and more people support equality for their gay friends and neighbors, and that is not because the 'Duck Dynasty' guy almost lost his show.

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'The West Wing' was an incredible, inspiring show - and one of the reasons I wanted to be a speechwriter.

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I'm motivated by a bottomless well of anger. It's a joke, but I don't think I don't mean it.

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We are drowning in information.

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Washington is filled with people making other people's arguments for money.

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Life tests our willingness, in ways large and small, to tell the truth.

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Sometimes you're going to be inexperienced, naive, untested, and totally right. And then, in those moments, you have to make a choice: is this a time to speak up, or hang back?

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I'll always cringe remembering those little embarrassing moments when I said something dumb on a conference call, when my inexperience poked through, when I should have been more solicitous of the judgment of those around me. They're a reminder that it's not mutually exclusive to be confident and humble, to be skeptical and eager to learn.

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I worked on one speech about the financial system that caused the Dow to drop, like, 200 points.

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When I was a kid, all I knew about Michael Jackson was that he was crazy. He had a monkey named Bubbles and some kind of oxygen chamber, and he used to be black, but he made himself white, and he was nuts. That was Michael Jackson in full. Wacko Jacko.

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One of the hardest lessons of childhood is reckoning with the instability of the world.

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America needs a strong, rational, positive, practical conservative movement. It needs that bulwark against liberal delusion and hubris. It needs a voice that says we are imperfect, that life is complex, that government can create need even as it meets need, that you can't fix everything, and freedom is worth some danger and sorrow.

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The Internet didn't cause Donald Trump, and it certainly can't solve Donald Trump.

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We don't want people to be afraid of saying something interesting on the off chance it's taken the wrong way.

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The First Amendment's protections have always put a great deal of responsibility in our hands: not only to respect the power of our own speech, but also to respect that same power in the hands of people we despise.

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Whenever you're talking about using humor in politics or in a policy speech or in a serious moment, you're talking about using it as a tool to engage people. That's why putting a joke in a political speech is a luxury, and it is always a risk.

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A boring speech can be just a boring speech. But a speech with a joke that falls flat is awful. I hate it. That's why I think it's easier to hate a comedy. If a drama doesn't land, it's boring; if a joke doesn't land - you hate that.

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