82 Quotes by Jon Lovett

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.

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.

It's always been a dream of mine to write comedy and be creative.

Regardless of how lyrical or rhetorically gifted they are in conveying big ideas, any candidate can do a good job of giving a speech if the goal of a speech is more than just delivering it well but achieving some end, whether it's convincing people of some issue or persuading them about you as a person.

I would like to be able to write in my own voice.

We need to stop telling each other to shut up. We need to get comfortable with the reality that no one is going to shut up.

I personally believe that Donald Trump being elected president is a national emergency and a crisis that stems from a great cascade of failures.

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.

There is an incredible appetite out there for in-depth, high-level conversations about what's going on.