Quote

I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.

Jon Stewart

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jon Stewart
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 28
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Journalist
Satirist
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Television Presenter
Television Producer
Manhattan borough
New York City
Jonathan Jon Stewart
Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz
Jonathan Stewart
Respect
Lines
Social
Change
Lazier
Great
Enact
Trying
Trenches
People
Fronts
Front

More quotes by Jon Stewart

Image
Congress is the Justin Bieber of our government
Jon Stewart
Image
I focus on the task and try and do it as best we can. And we're constantly evolving it, because it's my way of trying to make sense of all these ambivalent feelings I have.
Jon Stewart
Image
We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry.
Jon Stewart
Image
If you break someone's leg, shouldn't you have to be the crutch for a while?
Jon Stewart
Image
Wow, the entire network of anchors has been hired to be the press secretary.
Jon Stewart
Image
Poor Al Gore, global warming completely debunked, via the very Internet you invented.
Jon Stewart
Image
Body hair. You know when you're swimming as a kid and you want to crawl on your dad? None of us went anywhere near him. 'My god, a beaver! Everyone out of the pool!
Jon Stewart
Image
As we approach the millennium with sort of the idea that society is going to start spiraling into chaos, I'd love to be making jokes about that. Who wants to miss out on that? If the world is going to end, I want to be there the night before, goofing off.
Jon Stewart
Image
If everything is amplified, we hear nothing.
Jon Stewart
Image
California is choosing between the lesser of, uh, 300 evils.
Jon Stewart
Image
You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect.
Jon Stewart
Image
The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective.
Jon Stewart
Image
Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain.
Jon Stewart
Image
I only find out where countries are when we start bombing them.
Jon Stewart
Image
Democrats - always standing up for what they later realize they should have believed in.
Jon Stewart
Image
Nobody cares that Mitt Romney is rich. It’s Romney’s inability to understand the institutional advantage that he gains from the government’s tax code largesse that’s a little offensive to people. Especially considering Romney’s view on anyone else who looks to the government for things like, I don’t know, food and medicine.
Jon Stewart
Image
[President Bush] recently challenged Iraqi soldiers still fighting U.S. troops like so: ... 'My answer is bring 'em on.' For those of you who may be criticizing Bush for acting like a movie cowboy, let me remind you. He's actually acting more like a movie cheerleader.
Jon Stewart
Image
As an adolescent, Vonnegut made my life bearable.
Jon Stewart
Image
I feel much more strongly about the abdication of responsibility by the media than by political advocates. They're representing a constituency.
Jon Stewart
Image
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.
Jon Stewart