Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart

There are a hell of a lot of jobs that are scarier than live comedy. Like standing in the operating room when a guy's heart stops, and you're the one who has to fix it!

Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart

We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.

Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart

If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime.

Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart

Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana. You legalize marijuana, no need for quotas, because really, who's gonna wanna work?

Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart

You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.

Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.

Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart

I don't care about wealth. What seems to be upsetting is institutionalizing the advantages that wealth gives you.

Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart

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
Jon Stewart

I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character.

Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart

I've always liked Atlanta. And not just for the strip clubs, but the shopping and the food.

Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart

A joke is a joke. There's an expression - I don't know if you have it - that's 'adding insult to injury.'

Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart

I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.

Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart

Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid.

Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart

McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.

Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.

Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart

President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader.

Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart

I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor.