1. People
    2.  › 
  2. Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart photo

Jon Stewart Quotes

Total quotes: 14
“He's filling the ark with two of every kind of animal. Still to be collected: two giraffes, two elephants...and one more jackass.”
— Jon Stewart, Evan Almighty
Tagged: Noah's ark, Jackass
“He's filling the ark with two of every kind of animal. Still to be collected: two giraffes, two elephants...and one more jackass.”
— Jon Stewart, Evan Almighty
Tagged: Noah's ark, Jackass
“And we do want to say to the people at home, the clit is not something to be played with.”
— Reg Hartner, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Tagged: Clit
“I don’t think it’s a right and left thing. I don’t think that’s what is going to be important. I think CNN has an opportunity to be a real arbiter, but being a real arbiter means taking a stand. Not just having people on, ‘you’re on the left, you’re on the right.’ That’s like having people on in the cola wars ‘you’re from Pepsi, you’re from Coke.’ ‘What do you think?’ ‘I think we taste great.’ ‘Well, I think we taste great.’ ‘That’s all the time we have.”
— Jon Stewart
Tagged: Politics, News
“The view from my apartment was the World Trade Center... Now it's gone. They attacked it. This symbol of... of American ingenuity and strength.... and labor and imagination and commerce and it's gone. But you know what the view is now? The Statue of Liberty... the view from the south of Manhattan is the Statue of Liberty. You can’t beat that.”
— Jon Stewart, Video: Revisiting Jon Stewart's Post-9/11 Speech On The Daily Show
Tagged: September 11th, 9/11
“I don’t want to get into the political argument of the guns and things. But what blows my mind is the disparity of response between when we think people that are foreign are going to kill us, and us killing ourselves.”
— Jon Stewart, Read Jon Stewart’s blistering monologue about race, terrorism and gun violence after Charleston church massacre
Tagged: Shootings, Gun Control, White Men, Mass Shootings, Racism In America, Terrorism
“In South Carolina, the roads that black people drive on are named for Confederate generals who fought to keep black people from being able to drive freely on that road. That’s insanity. That’s racial wallpaper.”
— Jon Stewart, Read Jon Stewart’s blistering monologue about race, terrorism and gun violence after Charleston church massacre
Tagged: Racism In America
“Because it does create this idea that, in the same way that I hated ― Sarah Palin used to do this all the time ― ‘Out here in real America.’ There’s no real America. It’s just, it is what it is. Generally people are just trying to get to work. And I think the key for us is to be like, who needs a ride?”
— Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart Finally Went Long About The Election And Donald Trump
Tagged: Trump Administration, Taking Care Of People, Activism, What America Needs
“If [Trump] tries to deport dreamers, then that’s where everyone has to go, to protect them. If he tries to make a Muslim Registry, then everyone has to go there and help them. You have to find the people that are going be most in jeopardy, I think, and put your attentions on them because now it’s about reality.”
— Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart Finally Went Long About The Election And Donald Trump
Tagged: Trump Administration, Taking Care Of People, Activism, What America Needs
“[Hillary Clinton] was an unqualified Secretary of State because the way she handled classified material. His [Trump's] selection for Secretary of State will be David Petraeus, who pled guilty to mishandling classified material. He said she was unqualified because she gave a speech to Goldman Sachs. His Secretary of the Treasury is somebody from Goldman Sachs. We’re in post-accountability.”
— Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart Finally Went Long About The Election And Donald Trump
Tagged: Hypocrisy, Presidential Election 2016, Trump Administration
“That's what it's like to be a comedian. You basically stand and stare at the world and hope it craps out cause that's a good year for you. So that's not a pleasant feeling.”
— Jon Stewart, Bill Moyers Interviews Jon Stewart
Tagged: comedy, Bad Times
“These years are upsetting because I feel like we're being gas lit as a country in that what we see going on is just being described as the opposite but relentlessly by, you know, the administration.”
— Jon Stewart, Bill Moyers Interviews Jon Stewart
Tagged: Fake News, Bush Administration, George W. Bush
“The best defense against bullshit is vigilance. So if you smell something, say something.”
— Jon Stewart, Watch Jon Stewart's "Bullshit Is Everywhere" Speech From the 'Daily Show' Finale
Tagged: Fake News, The Daily Show
“Controlling the culture does not equate to holding the power.”
— Jon Stewart, Fake news: Jon Stewart says the media has become an "information-laundering scheme"
Tagged: Media, Culture, Power Dynamics, Journalism
loading next page...