Quotes & Jokes by Jon Stewart / page 14

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High school. You know, people say, 'I'll never do so-and-so again' - then they do it. So what? Sometimes somebody has crack, and you're looking to stay awake.

Bush proposed a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Some saw the move as an attempt to preserve traditional values, while others saw it as a cynical ploy to ensure that Vice President... Cheney will never have to pay for his gay daughter's wedding.

61% of graduating teens have had sex, 37% will eventually have sex, and 2% become statisticians.

GOP strategists hope the revelation of Kerry's wealth might debunk his status as a, quote, man of the people, and reveal him to be a bit of a fat cat. Unlike the President who as we all know before attending Andover and Yale, was a Cockney matchstick girl dying of tuberculosis.

If the presidency is the head of the American body politic, Congress is its gastrointestinal tract. Its vast and convoluted inner workings may be mysterious and unpleasant, but in the end they excrete a great deal of material whose successful passage is crucial to our nation's survival.

When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?

When you're accustomed to doing stand-up, so often you're the only person onstage and it's all your thing. It's very gladiatorial. Obviously, when you're in a scene with somebody, you're supposed to listen and react - and that's a bit of a transition.

Honest or not, in what world is a 35:1 leveraged position sane?

You wake up and you're still a little drunk and you can't believe that hot girl from last night actually has a beard and a penis.

Reform Jews are the children of Conservative Jews, or as they are sometimes known, Christians with curlier hair.

Senator John McCain, who spent over five years in a Vietnamese POW camp, publicly releases 1,000 pages of medical records. Now people are left with only one nagging question: what kind of a freak has 1,000 pages of medical records.

It's the inevitable consummation of this largely manufactured battle between a man who makes people laugh for a living and whatever people think I do. In a televised, two-part hatefuck that is, by all measure, bound to dissapoint anyone that's been following it. Catch the fever!

Don't worry, as long as America still has natural resources, you guys are okay.

There's always anxiety when you start a new job, you're the one guy who doesn't know where the ketchup is.

I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over.