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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.
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If you can make someone laugh about something that your opponent or your opposition thinks, that means you've done a really good job of highlighting what's wrong with their argument or their position.
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I spent three years working at the White House and wanted to do something that wasn't about passing bills and resolutions.
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We try to talk when the microphones are on the same way we would when the microphones are off.
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There is an incredible appetite out there for in-depth, high-level conversations about what's going on.
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I personally believe that Donald Trump being elected president is a national emergency and a crisis that stems from a great cascade of failures.
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It's certainly true that presidents have confidantes who rise above what you would call just staff.
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I'm motivated by a bottomless well of anger. It's a joke, but I don't think I don't mean it.
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Humor is a way of saying we're all seeing the same ridiculous, absurd, infuriating things together.
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Nationalism is not that hard. It's not that hard to incite people against another, and it's also - and this is the harder thing: Democrats have, and the challenge we have all the time, is we believe in governing and governance and trying to find middle ground.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We've been dealing with censorship around multimedia, about multinational companies and the content they create, for a very long time.
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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.
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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.
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I don't know the venture fund terms. I don't know what a seed round is. I want nothing to do with it.
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It's so unfair that Barack Obama, this cool, charming guy, also has good comedic timing.
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The conversation on Twitter and the way people are in the world are very different.
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Republicans paint everything that Democrats have been for as socialism, too far to the left, as extreme, and it didn't matter how moderated it was; it didn't matter that Obamacare started out as a compromise. You might as well say what you're actually for and show what you really are.
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Because the speech is an argument, and a great speech makes an argument well, the act of making that argument is a really important part of how the policy process coalesces and solidifies both for the candidate and also the people serving that candidate.
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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.
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Humor connects us, especially in politics. It's a way of surprising one another with shared context and experience.
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We don't want people to be afraid of saying something interesting on the off chance it's taken the wrong way.
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The Internet didn't cause Donald Trump, and it certainly can't solve Donald Trump.
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One of the hardest lessons of childhood is reckoning with the instability of the world.
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More and more people support equality for their gay friends and neighbors, and that is not because the 'Duck Dynasty' guy almost lost his show.
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We have a lot of really boring, silly, stupid politics. We need people to point that out.
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One of the lessons of 2016 is to spend less time worrying about what will happen and more time worrying about what we want to happen.
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There is that definition of leadership that says, 'Leadership is convincing people to do things that they otherwise wouldn't have done because you've made them believe it's the right thing to do.' And a great speech can do that.
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The great thing about writing jokes for President Obama is that he is not afraid to tell jokes that are actually funny - and not just funny for a politician.
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