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
I'm motivated by a bottomless well of anger. It's a joke, but I don't think I don't mean it. — 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
When a joke works, it works. It can make a point in a really simple way; it can be a great little… — 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
When I was a kid, all I knew about Michael Jackson was that he was crazy. He had a monkey named Bubbles and some… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
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… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
Trump is a raptor testing the fences, and he found weaknesses to escape and try things that would work, every single day. — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
