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America needs a strong, rational, positive, practical conservative movement. It needs that bulwark against liberal delusion and hubris. It needs a voice that says we are imperfect, that life is complex, that government can create need even as it meets need, that you can't fix everything, and freedom is worth some danger and sorrow.
- Jon Lovett
#Freedom
#Government
#Life
#Positive
Humor connects us, especially in politics. It's a way of surprising one another with shared context and experience.
- Jon Lovett
#Experience
#Humor
#Politics
#Us
#Way
Republicans paint everything that Democrats have been for as socialism, too far to the left, as extreme, and it didn't matter how moderated it was; it didn't matter that Obamacare started out as a compromise. You might as well say what you're actually for and show what you really are.
- Jon Lovett
#Compromise
#Far
#Matter
#Show
#Socialism
I'm motivated by a bottomless well of anger. It's a joke, but I don't think I don't mean it.
- Jon Lovett
#Anger
#Joke
#Mean
#Think
#Well
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.
- Jon Lovett
#Equality
#Gay
#Lost
#People
#Support
Everybody hates Congress; even Congress hates Congress.
- Jon Lovett
#Congress
#Even
#Everybody
#Hates
Kellyanne Conway is one of the most dishonest humans ever to grace the office she holds.
- Jon Lovett
#Dishonest
#Grace
#Most
#Office
#She
When in doubt, mock the powerful, not the powerless.
- Jon Lovett
#Doubt
#Mock
#Powerful
#When In Doubt
You look at what animates Democratic voters; you look at what animates Democratic politicians: it's health care. It's increasingly climate. It is wages and economic issues. It's issues around reproductive freedom and criminal justice reform and inequality.
- Jon Lovett
#Care
#Freedom
#Health
#Justice
#Look
So often on CNN, there's a world-class journalist interviewing campaign rejects and ideologues and silly, craven people who do not care about informing people, that aren't there to help people understand what's going on in the news.
- Jon Lovett
#Campaign
#Care
#Help
#News
#People
'The West Wing' was an incredible, inspiring show - and one of the reasons I wanted to be a speechwriter.
- Jon Lovett
#Incredible
#Reasons
#Show
#Wanted
#West
I personally believe that Donald Trump being elected president is a national emergency and a crisis that stems from a great cascade of failures.
- Jon Lovett
#Being
#Believe
#Crisis
#Emergency
#Great
Part of my job as a presidential speechwriter (along with great writers like Jon Favreau and David Axelrod) was finding that sliver where 'presidential' and 'actually funny' overlap.
- Jon Lovett
#Finding
#Funny
#Great
#Job
#Like
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.
- Jon Lovett
#Dumb
#Important
#Sometimes
#Thinking
#Us
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.
- Jon Lovett
#Black
#Crazy
#Monkey
#Oxygen
#White
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. That's what you have to do: you have to be confident in your potential and aware of your inexperience.
- Jon Lovett
#Ability
#Ideas
#Intelligence
#Mind
#Potential
#Time
#Two
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.
- Jon Lovett
#Cabinet
#Donald Trump
#Fire
#Way
Trump is a raptor testing the fences, and he found weaknesses to escape and try things that would work, every single day.
- Jon Lovett
#Day
#Escape
#Testing
#Try
#Work
Because the speech is an argument, and a great speech makes an argument well, the act of making that argument is a really important part of how the policy process coalesces and solidifies both for the candidate and also the people serving that candidate.
- Jon Lovett
#Argument
#Great
#People
#Process
#Speech
Barack Obama took office in the middle of a massive financial crisis. He was handed a bunch of messes all around the world and at home.
- Jon Lovett
#Crisis
#Financial
#Home
#Middle
#World
I am a deeply awkward person; I am not cool.
- Jon Lovett
#Am
#Awkward
#Cool
#I Am
#Person
I'll always cringe remembering those little embarrassing moments when I said something dumb on a conference call, when my inexperience poked through, when I should have been more solicitous of the judgment of those around me. They're a reminder that it's not mutually exclusive to be confident and humble, to be skeptical and eager to learn.
- Jon Lovett
#Always
#Conference
#Dumb
#Humble
#Me
Whenever you're talking about using humor in politics or in a policy speech or in a serious moment, you're talking about using it as a tool to engage people. That's why putting a joke in a political speech is a luxury, and it is always a risk.
- Jon Lovett
#Humor
#Moment
#Political
#Politics
#Why
I will never apologize for selective editing to make myself look better.
- Jon Lovett
#Better
#Editing
#Look
#Myself
#Will
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