Quotes & Jokes by Jon Stewart / page 11

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I don't care about wealth. What seems to be upsetting is institutionalizing the advantages that wealth gives you.

The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church's Fried Chicken is a church.

I like not to be good at anything, so I keep hopping around.

Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.

I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm.

Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.

Never name it after yourself. Maybe we'll throw a "with" in there. That seems to work. Like Late Show With David Letterman.

The currency of this show is your own head. They've established a certain structure here, but it's still in evolution.

I always knew I shouldn't have said that.

Oscar is 80 this year, which makes him now automatically the frontrunner for the Republican nomination.

I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor.

Alright guys, I want to get out there and vote tomorrow. And not because it's cool, because it's not. You know what is cool? Smoking. Smoke while you vote.

Several weeks ago, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford disappeared without explanation for five days. Now of course, as it turns out, he didn't really disappear. It turns out he was hiking on the Appalachian Trail. Which is a trail that starts in Maine and ends in an Argentine woman's vagina.

You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.

We could overcome the baser aspects of our nature... and give this planet the kind of caretakers it deserves.