Jon Stewart Quotes

Some call-in moderators are neutral and courteous. Then there's Rush Limbaugh, who is funny and pompous and a scapegoater and hatemonger. His popularity could cause you to draw some terrible conclusions about the state of mind of the American people. It helps to remember that Bill Cosby is popular, too.

I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Being a part of 'Sex and the City' was like being at the center of the universe - it was extraordinary.

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

I have never once asked Alaskans to like how I got this job.

The Eisenhower Memorial competition and project have stirred a remarkable polemic, the center of which is not President Eisenhower or Washington, D.C. but Mr. Gehry and the values he promulgates.

Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.

One is treading on very delicate ground when you have to consider the public opinion in China, Japan, the League of Geneva, and at home. It is pretty hard to avoid using a word which may arouse unintended repercussions in one or the other of those half a dozen localities

Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to the rest of the world. I mean, American jazz, for me, is the best thing culturally that America has produced.

I hear what people have said about what they want to see the Opera House used for and what they don't want to see it used for.

People really saw themselves in a big way in Elian Gonzalez's story.

What I say is that there's this culture and this vibe and this community in Brooklyn that's so amazing and wonderful, and it has influence on the world. That's the part of Brooklyn that I love and I begin to miss.

You can tell if it's a good collection if people are afraid of it. In ten years, everyone will love it.

When I see that man on the telly - 'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?' No! I'm definitely not! I find most of it quite offensive!

Many ordinary Americans make themselves feel better by saying what the famous daytime TV idiot says. But it leads to absolute calamity and disaster, as we are seeing.

People have misconceptions about Marilyn Manson, of course, but they can think what they want.

The popular choice is not elected as president.

The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob

Advertising does something important as a sector - culturally and especially economically

I think there's a lot to be learned from pop culture. But at the same time I see the dangers of using it in an exclusive way to construct meaning in your life.

Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters which strongly interest the passions, and engage universal attention. It is not difficult to obtain readers, when we discuss a question which every one is desirous to understand, which is debated in every assembly, and has divided the nation into parties; or when we display the faults or virtues of him whose public conduct has made almost every man his enemy or his friend.