There are a lot of heartbroken, anxious people that thought better of their country. We're heartbroken by how far Trump has gotten… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
As a rule, I think people in L.A. are interested in any writer who brings a different skill set and experiences. There's… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
So often on CNN, there's a world-class journalist interviewing campaign rejects and ideologues and silly, craven people who do not care about… — 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
We have a lot of really boring, silly, stupid politics. We need people to point that out. — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
It was awesome how supportive the White House was. It meant a lot to me that when I left, the people that… — 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
It's a reasonable thing to tell somebody, 'I've watched 70 hours of 'Game of Thrones.'' That's a totally normal, boring thing to… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
One thing that is for certain is that there are tens of millions of people who are deeply unsatisfied with the way… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
Washington is filled with people making other people's arguments for money. — 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
We don't want people to be afraid of saying something interesting on the off chance it's taken the wrong way. — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
I'm not insulting Trump supporters; I'm calling the people that CNN puts on television terrible representatives of the views of conservatives. — 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
