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“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”

“And try as I might, I am having difficulty giving a f**k.”

“We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry.”

“Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.”

"Late Night with Conan O'Brien," January 29, 2009

“It's not that the Democrats are playing checkers and the Republicans are playing chess. It's that the Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse's office because once again they glued their balls to their thighs.”

Source: America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction

“When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?”

“What would Jesus, or any human being who isn't an asshole, do?”

“You wonder sometimes how our government puts on its pants in the morning.”

“The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church's Fried Chicken is a church.”

“Wait a minute! Wait a minute! I figured this out.
I know what's wrong with what we've done in Iraq.
We've been following time as it goes forward.
What a classic mistake. Linear time is so pre-9-11.”

“The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.”

“It's like hunting cows”

“You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect.”

“No one is better at not beating America than England.”

“I don't know what all the controversy is about, quite frankly. I've met Eminem, I met him backstage, and he's really gay.”

Grammy Awards, February 21, 2001

“[with Stephen Colbert, after presenting the award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series to Ricky Gervais and being informed that Gervais was not there] Ricky Gervais couldn't be here tonight, so instead we're going to give this to our friend Steve Carell.”

Carell, who was among the nominees who had just lost to Gervais, then ran onto the stage, where the three of them group-hugged and jumped around screaming.
The 59th Primetime Emmy Awards (2007)

“30 AD: Death penalty debate heats up after controversial execution of alleged "Son of God."”

Jon Stewart book America

America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction (2004)

“Did you really just ask me if I want it to be bad? I have kids! What do you think? "Yeah, I don't want them to have any kind of a -- I want things to corrode to the point where we're all living in huts." […] [I] "like things to go a little wrong" like birdshot to the face of a guy that would survive, not "like things to go wrong" till it's like Mad Max, every-man-for-himself-let's-all-ride-around-and-machine-guns, which seems to be the way that it's”

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Responding to King's suggestion that as a political comedian Stewart would "want things to be bad" because that would provide him with the most fodder for jokes

“You wake up and you're still a little drunk and you can't believe that hot girl from last night actually has a beard and a penis.”

Cosmopolitan, January 1999, on embarrassing dates.

“There are terrorists and racists and Stalinists and theocrats, but those are titles that must be earned. You must have the resume. Not being able to distinguish between real racists and tea partiers, or real bigots and Juan Williams and Rick Sanchez is an insult — not only to those people, but to the racists themselves, who have put forth the exhausting effort it takes to hate. Just as the inability to distinguish between terrorists and Muslims makes us less safe, not more.”

Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear closing speech (2010)