I worked on one speech about the financial system that caused the Dow to drop, like, 200 points. — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
There is that definition of leadership that says, 'Leadership is convincing people to do things that they otherwise wouldn't have done because… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
Whenever you're talking about using humor in politics or in a policy speech or in a serious moment, you're talking about using… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
A boring speech can be just a boring speech. But a speech with a joke that falls flat is awful. I hate… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
Regardless of how lyrical or rhetorically gifted they are in conveying big ideas, any candidate can do a good job of giving… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
A great speech can make you remember something about what you believe, about who you are, about who you want to be.… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
There is an incredible appetite out there for in-depth, high-level conversations about what's going on. — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
The conversation on Twitter and the way people are in the world are very different. — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
Because the speech is an argument, and a great speech makes an argument well, the act of making that argument is a… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
Most of my time at the White House, I wrote very unfunny speeches, but every year, I would work on the correspondents' dinner, which… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
I worked on one speech about the financial system that caused the Dow to drop, like, 200 points. — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
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… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
Part of my job as a presidential speechwriter (along with great writers like Jon Favreau and David Axelrod) was finding that sliver where 'presidential'… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
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. — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
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… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
More and more people support equality for their gay friends and neighbors, and that is not because the 'Duck Dynasty' guy almost lost his… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
We need people to point out groupthink - We need people to point out stale, old, dumb thinking - and we sometimes need to… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
There's only so much mistrust we can take before things get much worse. — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
