I am very glad that Paul Ryan left the government as a capitulating supplicant to Donald Trump while the government was shut… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
I went into politics for the reasons most people do: ambition, self-righteousness, and a desire to help others. — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
The great thing about writing jokes for President Obama is that he is not afraid to tell jokes that are actually funny… — 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
Humor connects us, especially in politics. It's a way of surprising one another with shared context and experience. — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
You look at what animates Democratic voters; you look at what animates Democratic politicians: it's health care. It's increasingly climate. It is… — 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
Nationalism is not that hard. It's not that hard to incite people against another, and it's also - and this is the… — 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
They're the last human beings susceptible to human shame. Politicians are the only people left for whom, occasionally, shame hurts them. Everyone… — 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
