'Pod Save America' will be a kingmaker.
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.
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.
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.
Humor is a way of saying we're all seeing the same ridiculous, absurd, infuriating things together.
I'm motivated by a bottomless well of anger. It's a joke, but I don't think I don't mean it.
I had never really planned on being a speechwriter.
It's certainly true that presidents have confidantes who rise above what you would call just staff.
There's only so much mistrust we can take before things get much worse.
It's always been a dream of mine to write comedy and be creative.
I would like to be able to write in my own voice.
I personally believe that Donald Trump being elected president is a national emergency and a crisis that stems from a great cascade of failures.
There is an incredible appetite out there for in-depth, high-level conversations about what's going on.
We try to talk when the microphones are on the same way we would when the microphones are off.
I spent three years working at the White House and wanted to do something that wasn't about passing bills and resolutions.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. That's what you have to do: you have to be confident in your potential and aware of your inexperience.
I will never apologize for selective editing to make myself look better.
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.
We need people to point out groupthink - We need people to point out stale, old, dumb thinking - and we sometimes need to do that when it's considered dangerous, strange, or, by some, offensive. And we should be, all of us, trying to protect that. It's really important.
I could have continued being a speechwriter for as long as I wanted.
