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. — 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
