Quotes from Jon Lovett

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.

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

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.

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

I will never apologize for selective editing to make myself look better.

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?

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's so unfair that Barack Obama, this cool, charming guy, also has good comedic timing.

It's certainly true that presidents have confidantes who rise above what you would call just staff.

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.

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.

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.

Kellyanne Conway is one of the most dishonest humans ever to grace the office she holds.

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.

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.

If you can make someone laugh about something that your opponent or your opposition thinks, that means you've done a really good job of highlighting what's wrong with their argument or their position.

Washington is filled with people making other people's arguments for money.

We've been dealing with censorship around multimedia, about multinational companies and the content they create, for a very long time.

We are drowning in information.

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.

I'm not insulting Trump supporters; I'm calling the people that CNN puts on television terrible representatives of the views of conservatives.