82 Quotes by Jon Lovett

One thing that is for certain is that there are tens of millions of people who are deeply unsatisfied with the way they get their political news.

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.

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.

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.

Humor is a way of saying we're all seeing the same ridiculous, absurd, infuriating things together.

I'm motivated by a bottomless well of anger. It's a joke, but I don't think I don't mean it.

I had never really planned on being a speechwriter.

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.