Quotes About Current events

We shouldn't get lost in the bombastic tweets of Trump. He provides such great fodder every day. You don't want to lose sight of the other stuff that's going on that's even more important.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.

I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.

I'm not sure that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama know that we're at war.

I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.

At lunchtime (10:24 p.m.) I went out and bought the L.A. Times.

I missed that question on Alaska. I hear they want to make it a state now.

The best way to get the news is from objective sources, and the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what's happening in the world.

He is arguably the most well-informed man in the world, yet he rarely reads newspapers.

One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.

Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.

I don't have a Twitter, so I don't know what's happening in that world.

Instagram has a faster chance of reaching me than CNN, and if I really want to know what's going on, I refresh my Twitter feed.

Twitter is the first information that I ingest in the morning. When there are important things happening, friends of mine who follow news feeds will report on it, so I find out about most major news on Twitter.

Trending topics helped make Twitter a more relevant metric of what the world was talking about at any given moment. Google has worked for years in the space, most notably with Google Trends and Hot Searches, but Google+ offers the search giant the ability to see what is truly trending in real time.

What's cool about Twitter is that you can make a joke about something very of-the-moment or random that I wouldn't be able to joke about in stand-up.

I follow a lot of news outlets on Twitter, so I'll just go skim through the headlines and see what's going on.

Throughout the day, I frequently use my iPhone to check 'Deadline Hollywood' and my Twitter feed, as well as the 'Daily Beast,' the 'New York Times,' 'Metsblog,' and 'Thejetsblog.'

If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved.

Very rarely is there a spike in news-stand sales.

I feel like my comedy voice is to take the news and everything that's happening and put a funny spin on it or to pick out the things I find funny about it.

President Obama is sending troops back to Iraq. He said, 'Don't worry, we should not be there any longer than a Kardashian marriage.'

History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.