Jon Stewart Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach.

  Jon Stewart

  Respect, Country, Regret

  "Jon Stewart To Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade: ‘F—k You’" by Catherine Taibi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

• Any fool can blow something up. Any fool can destroy. But to see these guys, these firefighters and these policemen and people from all over the country, literally with buckets, rebuilding... that's extraordinary. And that's why we have already won... they can't... it's light. It's democracy. They can't shut that down.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Blow, Light

  "Video: Revisiting Jon Stewart's Post-9/11 Speech On 'The Daily Show'". "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, gothamist.com. September 20, 2001.

• Thomas Jefferson once said: 'Of course the people don't want war. But the people can be brought to the bidding of their leader. All you have to do is tell them they're being attacked and denounce the pacifists for somehow a lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.' I think that was Jefferson. Oh wait. That was Hermann Goering. Shoot." [Hosting the Peabody Awards for broadcasting excellence at the New York Waldorf-Astoria, June 6, 2006]

  Jon Stewart

  Country, New York, War

• 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

  Funny, Hilarious, Country

  "Vancouver Hockey Riot: Blame Canada!". ew.com. June 16, 2011.

• Bad jokes, and gay marriage are destroying this country - but torture can save it.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Gay, Politics

  "Jon Stewart Defends Wanda Sykes Venom - With Weird Comparisons to Waterboarding". "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, www.newsbusters.org. May 11, 2009.

• I have to say, as someone who is not a Christian, it’s hard for me to believe Christians are a persecuted people in America. God willing, maybe one of you one day will even rise up and get to be president of this country — or maybe forty-four in a row. But that’s my point, is they’ve taken this idea of no establishment as persecution, because they feel entitled, not to equal status, but to greater status.

  Jon Stewart

  Christian, Country, Believe

• Gay people can't be proud of the country and want to defend it too. What's the army afraid is going to happen if gay people are in it. Private, shoot that man! I can't, he's adorable.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Gay, Army

• War that hasn't affected us here, in the way that you would imagine a five-year war would affect a country.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, War, Years

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

• I don't trust any country that looks around a continent and says, "Hey, I'll take the frozen part."

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Canada, Looks

• The Jews celebrate Passover by eating unpalatable food to remind them what will happen to their people if they ever leave New York City. The traditional meal often includes gefilte fish. For those of you who don't know what gefilte fish is, it strongly resembles a ball of tuna fish that has been passed nasally. It's not good. During Passover, the angel of death passed over the Jews - an event that, up until the late 1950s, was re-enacted every year by Ivy League colleges and suburban country clubs.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, New York, Angel

  "Other News - Yeast of Burden". "The Daily Show" official website, March 31, 1999.

• On a more personal note we in this country we have a very tragic situation occur at one of our universities and, it really has taken the country aback and there's a real grieving process that we're going through, And going through it mourning and learning about the victims and-learning about it and showing our support, you know, I hesitate to say, how does your country handle what is that type of carnage on a daily basis?

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Real, Taken

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• You can have all the muskets you want! You can even have assault muskets!...Their (the NRA's) paranoid fear of a possible dystopic future prevents us from addressing our actual dystopic present. We can't even begin to address 30,000 gun deaths that are actually, in reality, happening in this country every year because a few of us must remain vigilant against the rise of an imaginary Hitler.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Gun, Reality

• The country's 24 hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems but its existence makes solving them that much harder. The press can hold its magnifying up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic. If we amplify everything we hear nothing.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Fire, Glasses

  Keynote Address at the Rally to Restore Sanity, delivered 30 October 2010, Washington Mall

• The country of Mexico has just gotten its first Taco Bell. You're Welcome. Finally, Mexicans will have access to... Mexican food. Bon appetit. I can't imagine how confused they will be when they get a taco.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Confused, Mexican

• We hear every damn day about how fragile our country is - on the brink of catastrophe - torn by polarizing hate, and how it's a shame that we can't work together to get things done, but the truth is we do. We work together to get things done every damn day!

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Hate, Working Together

  Keynote Address at the Rally to Restore Sanity, delivered 30 October 2010, Washington Mall

• I only find out where countries are when we start bombing them.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Bombing

• The conversation that the Senate and the House are having with the President [Barack Obama] was very similar to the conversation that [John] McCain and I were having, which was two people talking over each other and nobody really addressing the underlying issues of what kind of country do we want to be.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Talking, Two

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Iran, Ireland, Israel. That's three countries, four religions that HATE each other. Way to go, 'I'.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Hate, Israel

• The thing that [the Senate and the House] don't realize is that everyone wants them to come from beyond that contradiction so that we can all fix it. Nobody is saying, "We don't have a problem." Nobody is saying that, "9/11 didn't happen." What they're saying is, "We're not a fragile country, trust us to have this conversation, so that we can do this in the right way, in a more effective way."

  Jon Stewart

  Country, House, Want

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• The trial of Enron chiefs Jeffrey Skilling and Ken Lay began four-and-a-half years after perpetrating -- allegedly -- the fraud that led to the second largest bankruptcy in American history. Why four-and-a-half years? Because apparently it's harder to bring Ken Lay to trial than it is to invade two countries.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Years, Two

• It's a wonder our country doesn't implode.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Wonder, Our Country

• I don't think politics is any longer about a conversation with the country.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Thinking, Conversation

  "Bill Moyers talks with Jon Stewart". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

• Everybody talks about the entitlement generation. There is no time I'd rather live in than now, and there is no generation I would more entrust the future of this country to than this one. There is a tendency to live in a nostalgic state in this country, and to think that other generations possessed an integrity and a tenacity greater than the generation that is now. I wholeheartedly disagree with that. I believe that this is a group that will rise up to any challenge that comes before them as well as any other generation in America would have done.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Integrity, Believe

• One of the things that I do think government counts on is that people are busy. And it's very difficult to mobilize a busy and relatively affluent country, unless it's over really crucial- you know, foundational issues.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Thinking, Government

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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