Jon Stewart Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• If it turns out that President Barack Obama can make a deal with the most intransigent, hard-line, unreasonable, totalitarian mullahs in the world but not with Republicans? Maybe he's not the problem.

  Jon Stewart

  Funny, Usa, America

• If someone was to introduce hope and idealism into our political system, I think the tension that would create in other areas would certainly be ripe. You would think that if you bring oxygen to the organism, the organism lives. But there may be other organisms in there that thrive in darkness and in a more anaerobic environment. Watching those creatures writhe will always be interesting.

  Jon Stewart

  Thinking, Oxygen, Interesting

  "No News is Good News" by Adam Bulger, The Hartford Advocate, June 12, 2008.

• Bad jokes, and gay marriage are destroying this country - but torture can save it.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Gay, Politics

  "Jon Stewart Defends Wanda Sykes Venom - With Weird Comparisons to Waterboarding". "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, www.newsbusters.org. May 11, 2009.

• Robert Torricelli, a powerful fund-raiser who helped raise more than $100 million for the Democratic party, took inappropriate gifts from a businessman, including an $8,000 gold Rolex watch, for which he was severely admonished by the Senate Ethics Committee in July. To recap: raising $100 million in contributions from gigantic corporations - ethical; taking a watch - unethical. That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1974.

  Jon Stewart

  Powerful, Party, July

• The Oscars is the one night of the year when you can see all your favorite stars without having to donate any money to the Democratic Party

  Jon Stewart

  Stars, Party, Night

• Poor Al Gore, global warming completely debunked, via the very Internet you invented.

  Jon Stewart

  Politics, Als, Global Warming

  "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. December 9, 2009.

• Donald Rumsfeld. Love him or hate him, you've gotta admit: a lot of people hate him.

  Jon Stewart

  Love, Funny, Hate

• The country's 24 hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems but its existence makes solving them that much harder. The press can hold its magnifying up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic. If we amplify everything we hear nothing.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Fire, Glasses

  Keynote Address at the Rally to Restore Sanity, delivered 30 October 2010, Washington Mall

• What's with the poverty Tourette's? Why do these two think we need a hobo for president?

  Jon Stewart

  Money, Thinking, Reality

• I heard Dennis Kucinich say in a debate, 'When I'm president... and I just wanted to stop him and say, 'Dude.'

  Jon Stewart

  President, Politics, Debate

• If I was to really get at the burr in my saddle, it's not politics - and this is, I think, probably a horrible analogy - but I look at politicians as they are doing what inherently they need to do to retain power. Their job is to consolidate power. When you go to the zoo and you see a monkey throwing poop, you go, 'That's what monkeys do, what are you gonna do?' But what I wish the media would do more frequently is say, 'Bad monkey.'

  Jon Stewart

  Jobs, Zoos, Thinking

  "Charlie Rose" Interview, charlierose.com. September 29, 2004.

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