Jon Lovett

Most of my time at the White House, I wrote very unfunny speeches, but every year, I would work on the correspondents'…

— Jon Lovett

When in doubt, mock the powerful, not the powerless.

— Jon Lovett

I worked on one speech about the financial system that caused the Dow to drop, like, 200 points.

— Jon Lovett

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

'Veep' is a great satire of democracy.

— Jon Lovett

Part of my job as a presidential speechwriter (along with great writers like Jon Favreau and David Axelrod) was finding that sliver…

— Jon Lovett

If there is one way that I would sum up what the 2016 election was on cable news, it was world-class journalists…

— Jon Lovett

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

'1600 Penn' was a hit. It's 2018. Anything you want can be true.

— Jon Lovett

More and more people support equality for their gay friends and neighbors, and that is not because the 'Duck Dynasty' guy almost…

— Jon Lovett

We need people to point out groupthink - We need people to point out stale, old, dumb thinking - and we sometimes…

— Jon Lovett

There's only so much mistrust we can take before things get much worse.

— Jon Lovett

When I was a kid, all I knew about Michael Jackson was that he was crazy. He had a monkey named Bubbles…

— Jon Lovett

The First Amendment's protections have always put a great deal of responsibility in our hands: not only to respect the power of…

— Jon Lovett

Trump is a raptor testing the fences, and he found weaknesses to escape and try things that would work, every single day.

— Jon Lovett

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

If you can make someone laugh about something that your opponent or your opposition thinks, that means you've done a really good…

— Jon Lovett

One of the lessons of 2016 is to spend less time worrying about what will happen and more time worrying about what…

— Jon Lovett

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

I am very glad that Paul Ryan left the government as a capitulating supplicant to Donald Trump while the government was shut…

— Jon Lovett

I'll always cringe remembering those little embarrassing moments when I said something dumb on a conference call, when my inexperience poked through,…

— Jon Lovett

I went into politics for the reasons most people do: ambition, self-righteousness, and a desire to help others.

— Jon Lovett

The great thing about writing jokes for President Obama is that he is not afraid to tell jokes that are actually funny…

— Jon Lovett

It doesn't matter what the early votes look like. It doesn't matter what the polls look like. We can lose everything.

— Jon Lovett

Making '1600 Penn' was really fun, and I learned a lot.

— Jon Lovett