Quotes About Current events

We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events.

People crave trustworthy information about the world we live in. Some people want it because it is essential to the way they make a living. Some want it because they regard being well-informed as a condition of good citizenship. Some want it because they want something to exchange over dinner tables and water coolers.

That's the thing about 'The Daily Show' - we're doing four shows a week, so we can't be too precious about what's going on.

I think you could argue that President Obama could have watched a little cable news... I do think that there is value in understanding where the conversation is and having a little less detachment where the popular conversation is.

President Trump has made political news interesting and necessary for people to follow.

I am a political junkie. During a presidential campaign, I will often buy a couple of newspapers a day just to keep up.

I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

As a human being, you can't not connect to the chaos that exists around the world on a day-to-day, or things that you've seen on the news just here domestically.

All you need to do is turn on the news, and in five minutes, you're depressed with the state of the world. Choosing joy is a completely active choice. It doesn't just happen. You can't just say, 'I want to be happy.' You have to take action.

Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.

I developed my love for the news because of my love for international news.

If you really want to be afraid for mankind, you don't even need to know who Paul Ryan is. All you have to do is lurk for five minutes by the pharmacy.

The news has the ability to define the agenda by leading the attention of an audience to what it believes to be the issues of importance.

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

journalism is the first draft of history

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they exist. If you don't see them they don't exist.

'Bombshell' is a remarkable podcast. In the course of it, three people who know what they are talking about cover 'military strategy, White House mayhem, and the best cocktails'.

It was a show where you were given a quote out of current events and you had to identify who said it. I was reading eight newspapers a day and had compiled a file of about 300 quotes. I really had to do my research. The White House press didn't have to bone up on any of it.

I see myself primarily as a comedian, and my aim on the 'Last Leg' is to be as funny as I can about the news.

I'm fascinated by current events and the privilege of trying to share it with other people and tell a story.

I'm always trying to find the next comedian that just gives me something a little funny to combine with all of the depressing news that I'm processing.

Politics isn't something that really interested me; I, of course, care about what's going on in the world, but so much of political discourse now is not necessarily about doing what's right.