Words matter. These are the best Jon Lovett Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It was awesome how supportive the White House was. It meant a lot to me that when I left, the people that I worked with – Jon Favreau and David Axelrod and others – really understood that this was something that I felt I held had to do.
Humor connects us, especially in politics. It’s a way of surprising one another with shared context and experience.
Making ‘1600 Penn’ was really fun, and I learned a lot.
We try to talk when the microphones are on the same way we would when the microphones are off.
We’ve been dealing with censorship around multimedia, about multinational companies and the content they create, for a very long time.
When I was a kid, all I knew about Michael Jackson was that he was crazy. He had a monkey named Bubbles and some kind of oxygen chamber, and he used to be black, but he made himself white, and he was nuts. That was Michael Jackson in full. Wacko Jacko.
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.
One of the lessons of 2016 is to spend less time worrying about what will happen and more time worrying about what we want to happen.
Everybody hates Congress; even Congress hates Congress.
I had never really planned on being a speechwriter.
They’re the last human beings susceptible to human shame. Politicians are the only people left for whom, occasionally, shame hurts them. Everyone else, we’ve sort of done away with it as a concept, and we’re hurtling through space like animals, basically.
It is extremely chilling that Donald Trump views the spectacle of choosing cabinet appointments in a way that is similar to deciding whether or not to fire Lil Jon or Joan Rivers.
The Internet didn’t cause Donald Trump, and it certainly can’t solve Donald Trump.
I don’t know the venture fund terms. I don’t know what a seed round is. I want nothing to do with it.
Nationalism is not that hard. It’s not that hard to incite people against another, and it’s also – and this is the harder thing: Democrats have, and the challenge we have all the time, is we believe in governing and governance and trying to find middle ground.
It doesn’t matter what the early votes look like. It doesn’t matter what the polls look like. We can lose everything.
We have a lot of really boring, silly, stupid politics. We need people to point that out.
Trump is a raptor testing the fences, and he found weaknesses to escape and try things that would work, every single day.
I will never apologize for selective editing to make myself look better.
When a joke works, it works. It can make a point in a really simple way; it can be a great little sound bite to put on television or share on social media. Humor has this incredible power in how we communicate about politics now, in part because there’s something natural in the way it’s communicated.
Little things had to go wrong for Donald Trump to become president: Comey, emails, all that stuff. Big things did make Trump possible. Big, cultural, political, economic forces opened the door to someone like Trump.
I went into politics for the reasons most people do: ambition, self-righteousness, and a desire to help others.
I don’t live in the city of L.A. I live in West Hollywood.
It’s certainly true that presidents have confidantes who rise above what you would call just staff.
There is an incredible appetite out there for in-depth, high-level conversations about what’s going on.
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 most powerful position in the world.
More and more people support equality for their gay friends and neighbors, and that is not because the ‘Duck Dynasty’ guy almost lost his show.
The great thing about writing jokes for President Obama is that he is not afraid to tell jokes that are actually funny – and not just funny for a politician.
We need people to point out groupthink – We need people to point out stale, old, dumb thinking – and we sometimes need to do that when it’s considered dangerous, strange, or, by some, offensive. And we should be, all of us, trying to protect that. It’s really important.
Washington is filled with people making other people’s arguments for money.
As a rule, I think people in L.A. are interested in any writer who brings a different skill set and experiences. There’s an attraction to novelty and to anyone whose writing isn’t based in screenwriting. I had that novelty.
I am very glad that Paul Ryan left the government as a capitulating supplicant to Donald Trump while the government was shut down, while the debt hit record levels, right? Every single thing Paul Ryan claimed to care about.
Sometimes you’re going to be inexperienced, naive, untested, and totally right. And then, in those moments, you have to make a choice: is this a time to speak up, or hang back?
‘The West Wing’ was an incredible, inspiring show – and one of the reasons I wanted to be a speechwriter.
We are drowning in partisan rhetoric that is just true enough not to be a lie; in industry-sponsored research; in social media’s imitation of human connection; in legalese and corporate double-speak.
