Jon Lovett Quotes

Jon Lovett

Profession : Producer

Birth : August 17, 1982

When a joke works, it works. It can make a point in a really simple way; it can be a great little sound bite to put on television or share on social media. Humor has this incredible power in how we communicate about politics now, in part because there's something natural in the way it's communicated.

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Kellyanne Conway is one of the most dishonest humans ever to grace the office she holds.

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Part of my job as a presidential speechwriter (along with great writers like Jon Favreau and David Axelrod) was finding that sliver where 'presidential' and 'actually funny' overlap.

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Everybody hates Congress; even Congress hates Congress.

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When in doubt, mock the powerful, not the powerless.

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A great speech can make you remember something about what you believe, about who you are, about who you want to be. It's rare when that kind of thing happens. But it is important, and it is real.

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Regardless of how lyrical or rhetorically gifted they are in conveying big ideas, any candidate can do a good job of giving a speech if the goal of a speech is more than just delivering it well but achieving some end, whether it's convincing people of some issue or persuading them about you as a person.

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Because the speech is an argument, and a great speech makes an argument well, the act of making that argument is a really important part of how the policy process coalesces and solidifies both for the candidate and also the people serving that candidate.

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There is that definition of leadership that says, 'Leadership is convincing people to do things that they otherwise wouldn't have done because you've made them believe it's the right thing to do.' And a great speech can do that.

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Republicans paint everything that Democrats have been for as socialism, too far to the left, as extreme, and it didn't matter how moderated it was; it didn't matter that Obamacare started out as a compromise. You might as well say what you're actually for and show what you really are.

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If there is one way that I would sum up what the 2016 election was on cable news, it was world-class journalists interviewing morons.

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I had a really fun career in TV right after I left politics.

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The conversation on Twitter and the way people are in the world are very different.

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There are a lot of heartbroken, anxious people that thought better of their country. We're heartbroken by how far Trump has gotten to the most powerful position in the world.

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Trump is a raptor testing the fences, and he found weaknesses to escape and try things that would work, every single day.

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I am a deeply awkward person; I am not cool.

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We need to stop telling each other to shut up. We need to get comfortable with the reality that no one is going to shut up.

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I don't know the venture fund terms. I don't know what a seed round is. I want nothing to do with it.

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People say that making money in the content-media game is hard, and that is just, like, not my experience. It's super-confusing, 'cause everyone's like, 'Oh, how are you going to monetize?' It's easy: just start talking, and then money rolls in.

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You look at what animates Democratic voters; you look at what animates Democratic politicians: it's health care. It's increasingly climate. It is wages and economic issues. It's issues around reproductive freedom and criminal justice reform and inequality.

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