Jon Lovett : (7) " Humor connects us, especially in politics. It’s a way of surprising one another with shared context and experience. " - Jon Lovett " 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. " - Jon Lovett " I don’t live in the city of L.A. I live in West Hollywood. " - Jon Lovett " When in doubt, mock the powerful, not the powerless. " - Jon Lovett " The conversation on Twitter and the way people are in the world are very different. " - Jon Lovett " Most of my time at the White House, I wrote very unfunny speeches, but every year, I would work on the correspondents’ dinner, which was a reminder of this other kind of writing that I loved to do. " - Jon Lovett " 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