Jon Lovett Quotes

Jon Lovett

Profession : Producer

Birth : August 17, 1982

I am very glad that Paul Ryan left the government as a capitulating supplicant to Donald Trump while the government was shut down, while the debt hit record levels, right? Every single thing Paul Ryan claimed to care about.

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We've been dealing with censorship around multimedia, about multinational companies and the content they create, for a very long time.

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I'm famously humble.

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Making '1600 Penn' was really fun, and I learned a lot.

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I'm not insulting Trump supporters; I'm calling the people that CNN puts on television terrible representatives of the views of conservatives.

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So often on CNN, there's a world-class journalist interviewing campaign rejects and ideologues and silly, craven people who do not care about informing people, that aren't there to help people understand what's going on in the news.

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'Pod Save America' will be a kingmaker.

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One of the lessons of 2016 is to spend less time worrying about what will happen and more time worrying about what we want to happen.

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One thing that is for certain is that there are tens of millions of people who are deeply unsatisfied with the way they get their political news.

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Little things had to go wrong for Donald Trump to become president: Comey, emails, all that stuff. Big things did make Trump possible. Big, cultural, political, economic forces opened the door to someone like Trump.

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Barack Obama took office in the middle of a massive financial crisis. He was handed a bunch of messes all around the world and at home.

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Nationalism is not that hard. It's not that hard to incite people against another, and it's also - and this is the harder thing: Democrats have, and the challenge we have all the time, is we believe in governing and governance and trying to find middle ground.

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It doesn't matter what the early votes look like. It doesn't matter what the polls look like. We can lose everything.

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Humor is a way of saying we're all seeing the same ridiculous, absurd, infuriating things together.

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I had never really planned on being a speechwriter.

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It was awesome how supportive the White House was. It meant a lot to me that when I left, the people that I worked with - Jon Favreau and David Axelrod and others - really understood that this was something that I felt I held had to do.

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The great thing about writing jokes for President Obama is that he is not afraid to tell jokes that are actually funny - and not just funny for a politician.

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'Veep' is a great satire of democracy.

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It's certainly true that presidents have confidantes who rise above what you would call just staff.

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There's only so much mistrust we can take before things get much worse.

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