Quotes About Current events

When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.

I enjoy talking about politics a great deal.

In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.

CNN has a thing called You Choose the News. Y'know what CNN? I'm turning you on because I don't know the news. I was hoping you could help me.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.

I don't want anything bad to happen to the United States, but if North Korea ever drops a nuclear bomb on this country, I swear to God, I hope it lands in Hartford.

History is past politics and politics present history.

I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn't matter where something is made, we're all part of the same big family now.

I watch Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, and Chris Matthews. That's what I watch every night. By the time I've watched them, I don't have time to watch reality TV shows.

I've stopped watching TV news. They couldn't pay me enough money.

We've got to keep our eye on what's happening with Russia and North Korea. We cannot lose sight of domestic policy, either. Healthcare. Immigration. Climate change.

I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.

People get so heated about it and can't see the funny side, I think. And plus, everything's been said. It must be really difficult to come up with new jokes about Brexit.

There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.

The job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but a lot of my interests are in politics so I'm going to use that.

There is no way I will survive Mike Pence doing Carpool Karaoke. What song's he gonna sing? 'I Deported Your Grandmother?'

With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!

In general, I think very few people have a sustained interest in news.

Leave it to an Obama supporter to bring up Iraq in the middle of a conversation about the swine flu pandemic.

I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.