Quotes from Sam Seder

I mean, the conservative movement in this country has been selling a pack of lies for a long time.

I think there's a real hunger out there for new voices who will speak more truth to power and who are less ensconced in the establishment machine.

I look like a very nice, benign Jewish man-boy.

When I came home, I was no longer the pariah who had dropped out of law school. I had been on TV. And everybody wanted to know, not only what being on TV was like, but what I thought about world events. Suddenly, there was some value to what I was saying. That's bizarre.

There's been this sort of attitude in media in the past in this country that it's not our job to fall on one side or the other. But what I'm suggesting is that in this day and age, there is no deciding not to fall on one side of the other. You're going to be on a side, so you've got to lean in and choose the right one.

Cable news is nothing more than entertainment, except for the International version of CNN and perhaps the BBC.

I don't have great thoughts about a lot of Republican candidates.

Either you're a political comedian or you're a stand-up. Just talking about politics isn't enough. People who talk about airplane food, you don't call them airplane comedians.

I feel like I don't mind acting in a sitcom because it pays well and is good exposure, but I don't feel like, comedically, what I have to say I can say on a show that needs to draw 14 million each week.

My theory about L.A. is that it's almost like you have an allergy that's dormant and just need to be put in the right context for that allergy to come out. And L.A.'s like that in my mind. People who have any of that dormant blind ambition, it can easily come out in that context.

There's an argument that private debt, in some way, is creating indentured servants in our country. But public debt does not do that. In fact, public debt does the exact opposite - it relieves private debt.

With comedic actors, you can write one joke or two jokes, sample dialogue, and they have the capacity to extrapolate.

I mean, what was really interesting is that, you know, Ted Cruz put out this ad with little kids saying that Donald Trump essentially is pretending to be a Republican, which is a little bit odd because Ted Cruz is not been the biggest Republican Party booster, right.

Because, listen, I'm terrified at the idea that Donald Trump could be the president of the United States.

Because there is something psychologically wrong with you on some level if you want to be on TV, if the only way you can fulfill yourself is by literally going from three dimensions to two dimensions.

Donald Trump's own intelligence is publicly saying that Russia is actively trying to help him and hurt Joe Biden.

I think what happens normally in a narrative film is that the camera constructs the reality.

I believe there should be enforcement and redevelopment of anti-trust laws that fully regulate the media.

But I will say this, look, I don't think that there's anyone in the country who thinks that impeachment's going to lead to Donald Trump leaving office. The point is, you need to put down a marker as to who is accountable, what the President can get away with.

You know, actors say, 'There are no bad roles, there are only bad actors.' Well, comedians, because they're also writers, believe that there are in fact bad roles.

Bin Laden is living in the United States, and he has blonde hair. He's probably got some type of eating disorder. And he drinks too much, and then occasionally writes an op-ed under the name Ann Coulter.

You cannot avoid controversy in this day and age - you really only can pick sides.

I don't have any insight to Donald Trump that anyone else doesn't.

I mean, Donald Trump has been able, because of Mitch McConnell, to seat more circuit court judges almost than Barack Obama did in eight years.