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We are drowning in information.
Jon Lovett
Drowning
Information
We don't want people to be afraid of saying something interesting on the off chance it's taken the wrong way.
Jon Lovett
Saying
People
Way
Something
Taken
Wrong
Wrong Way
Off
Afraid
Want
Interesting
Chance
Humor connects us, especially in politics. It's a way of surprising one another with shared context and experience.
Jon Lovett
Politics
Experience
Humor
Way
Shared
Another
Context
Surprising
Us
Connects
If there is one way that I would sum up what the 2016 election was on cable news, it was world-class journalists interviewing morons.
Jon Lovett
News
Election
World-Class
Sum
Interviewing
Way
Would
One-Way
Cable
Morons
Journalists
Up
I had a really fun career in TV right after I left politics.
Jon Lovett
Politics
TV
Had
Left
After
Really
Fun
Right
Career
The conversation on Twitter and the way people are in the world are very different.
Jon Lovett
Conversation
People
World
Twitter
Way
Very
Different
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.
Jon Lovett
People
World
Better
Thought
Country
Powerful
Most
Most Powerful
How
How Far
Gotten
Trump
Lot
Heartbroken
Anxious
Far
Position
Trump is a raptor testing the fences, and he found weaknesses to escape and try things that would work, every single day.
Jon Lovett
Work
Day
Try
Single
Every
Weaknesses
Would
He
Single Day
Fences
Testing
Trump
Escape
Found
Things
Every Single Day
I am a deeply awkward person; I am not cool.
Jon Lovett
Am
Person
Cool
Deeply
Awkward
We need to stop telling each other to shut up. We need to get comfortable with the reality that no one is going to shut up.
Jon Lovett
Reality
Other
Telling
No-One
Comfortable
Up
Get
Going
Stop
Each
Shut
Shut Up
Need
You look at what animates Democratic voters; you look at what animates Democratic politicians: it's health care. It's increasingly climate. It is wages and economic issues. It's issues around reproductive freedom and criminal justice reform and inequality.
Jon Lovett
Health
Freedom
You
Justice
Care
Politicians
Increasingly
Criminal
Criminal Justice
Economic
Voters
Look
Democratic
Health Care
Around
Inequality
Climate
Wages
Issues
Reform
Reproductive
I am very glad that Paul Ryan left the government as a capitulating supplicant to Donald Trump while the government was shut down, while the debt hit record levels, right? Every single thing Paul Ryan claimed to care about.
Jon Lovett
Government
Care
Single
Down
Every
Claimed
Record
About
Glad
Am
Single Thing
Trump
Left
Debt
Very
Hit
Hit Record
Donald
Donald Trump
While
Paul
Paul Ryan
Right
Thing
Shut
Levels
Every Single Thing
We've been dealing with censorship around multimedia, about multinational companies and the content they create, for a very long time.
Jon Lovett
Time
Censorship
Long
Long Time
About
Content
Around
Dealing
Been
Very
Very Long Time
Create
Companies
Multimedia
Multinational
Every technology company should have a red button somewhere in the headquarters where, if they realize they've caused more societal harm than they expected and done more harm than good, they press the button, and the company dissolves instantly.
Jon Lovett
Good
Technology
Somewhere
Every
Press
More
Instantly
Red
Headquarters
Caused
Than
Expected
Done
Where
Realize
Should
Company
Societal
Button
Harm
Making '1600 Penn' was really fun, and I learned a lot.
Jon Lovett
Penn
Learned
Making
Lot
Really
Fun
So often on CNN, there's a world-class journalist interviewing campaign rejects and ideologues and silly, craven people who do not care about informing people, that aren't there to help people understand what's going on in the news.
Jon Lovett
News
People
Care
Journalist
World-Class
Interviewing
Silly
About
Ideologues
Understand
Campaign
Going
Often
Informing
Help
Help People
Who
Rejects
'Pod Save America' will be a kingmaker.
Jon Lovett
Will
America
Save
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.
Jon Lovett
Little Things
Political
Big
Become
President
Emails
Possible
Someone
Economic
Economic Forces
Had
Wrong
Stuff
Opened
Like
Make
Forces
Go
Cultural
Trump
Did
Donald
Donald Trump
Big Things
Door
Little
Things
It doesn't matter what the early votes look like. It doesn't matter what the polls look like. We can lose everything.
Jon Lovett
Matter
Lose
Everything
Like
Votes
Look
Polls
Early
I had never really planned on being a speechwriter.
Jon Lovett
Never
Had
Being
Really
Planned
'Veep' is a great satire of democracy.
Jon Lovett
Great
Democracy
Satire
I went into politics for the reasons most people do: ambition, self-righteousness, and a desire to help others.
Jon Lovett
Politics
People
Ambition
Help Others
Others
Most
Help
Reasons
Desire
It's always been a dream of mine to write comedy and be creative.
Jon Lovett
Creative
Comedy
Mine
Dream
Write
Always
Been
I personally believe that Donald Trump being elected president is a national emergency and a crisis that stems from a great cascade of failures.
Jon Lovett
Great
National
Believe
President
Crisis
Cascade
Emergency
Stems
Failures
Trump
Donald
Donald Trump
Being
Personally
Elected
I spent three years working at the White House and wanted to do something that wasn't about passing bills and resolutions.
Jon Lovett
Three
White
White House
Spent
About
Something
House
Passing
Years
Wanted
Working
Bills
Resolutions
As a rule, I think people in L.A. are interested in any writer who brings a different skill set and experiences. There's an attraction to novelty and to anyone whose writing isn't based in screenwriting. I had that novelty.
Jon Lovett
People
Writing
Think
Rule
Writer
Had
Attraction
Any
Different
Experiences
Anyone
Screenwriting
Interested
Skill
Who
Novelty
Whose
Based
Brings
Set
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