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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a really fun career in TV right after I left politics.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The conversation on Twitter and the way people are in the world are very different.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump is a raptor testing the fences, and he found weaknesses to escape and try things that would work, every single day.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a deeply awkward person; I am not cool.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so unfair that Barack Obama, this cool, charming guy, also has good comedic timing.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know the venture fund terms. I don't know what a seed round is. I want nothing to do with it.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say that making money in the content-media game is hard, and that is just, like, not my experience. It's super-confusing, 'cause everyone's like, 'Oh, how are you going to monetize?' It's easy: just start talking, and then money rolls in.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've been dealing with censorship around multimedia, about multinational companies and the content they create, for a very long time.
- Headquarters
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm famously humble.
- Learned
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making '1600 Penn' was really fun, and I learned a lot.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not insulting Trump supporters; I'm calling the people that CNN puts on television terrible representatives of the views of conservatives.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
'Pod Save America' will be a kingmaker.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing that is for certain is that there are tens of millions of people who are deeply unsatisfied with the way they get their political news.
- Economic Forces
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Financial Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barack Obama took office in the middle of a massive financial crisis. He was handed a bunch of messes all around the world and at home.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes you're going to be inexperienced, naive, untested, and totally right. And then, in those moments, you have to make a choice: is this a time to speak up, or hang back?
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll always cringe remembering those little embarrassing moments when I said something dumb on a conference call, when my inexperience poked through, when I should have been more solicitous of the judgment of those around me. They're a reminder that it's not mutually exclusive to be confident and humble, to be skeptical and eager to learn.
- Financial
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked on one speech about the financial system that caused the Dow to drop, like, 200 points.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, all I knew about Michael Jackson was that he was crazy. He had a monkey named Bubbles and some kind of oxygen chamber, and he used to be black, but he made himself white, and he was nuts. That was Michael Jackson in full. Wacko Jacko.
- Hardest
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the hardest lessons of childhood is reckoning with the instability of the world.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
America needs a strong, rational, positive, practical conservative movement. It needs that bulwark against liberal delusion and hubris. It needs a voice that says we are imperfect, that life is complex, that government can create need even as it meets need, that you can't fix everything, and freedom is worth some danger and sorrow.
- Donald Trump
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet didn't cause Donald Trump, and it certainly can't solve Donald Trump.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are drowning in information.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't want people to be afraid of saying something interesting on the off chance it's taken the wrong way.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The First Amendment's protections have always put a great deal of responsibility in our hands: not only to respect the power of our own speech, but also to respect that same power in the hands of people we despise.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever you're talking about using humor in politics or in a policy speech or in a serious moment, you're talking about using it as a tool to engage people. That's why putting a joke in a political speech is a luxury, and it is always a risk.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
A boring speech can be just a boring speech. But a speech with a joke that falls flat is awful. I hate it. That's why I think it's easier to hate a comedy. If a drama doesn't land, it's boring; if a joke doesn't land - you hate that.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a joke works, it works. It can make a point in a really simple way; it can be a great little sound bite to put on television or share on social media. Humor has this incredible power in how we communicate about politics now, in part because there's something natural in the way it's communicated.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kellyanne Conway is one of the most dishonest humans ever to grace the office she holds.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of my job as a presidential speechwriter (along with great writers like Jon Favreau and David Axelrod) was finding that sliver where 'presidential' and 'actually funny' overlap.
- Even
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody hates Congress; even Congress hates Congress.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humor connects us, especially in politics. It's a way of surprising one another with shared context and experience.
- Mock
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- Nov 07, 2020
When in doubt, mock the powerful, not the powerless.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great speech can make you remember something about what you believe, about who you are, about who you want to be. It's rare when that kind of thing happens. But it is important, and it is real.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020