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Experience Quote by Jon Lovett

“Humor connects us, especially in politics. It's a way of surprising one another with shared context and experience.” quote by Jon Lovett — Download Open image

“Humor connects us, especially in politics. It's a way of surprising one another with shared context and experience.”

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

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

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

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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…

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'Veep' is a great satire of democracy.

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

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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.

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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…

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

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

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

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

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