Jonah Quotes

I would also say Barack Obama has spent much, much, much, much more money than the Republicans.

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.

I think as - all in all, it's better to have a cool president than a not cool president.

I suppose in John Kerry's world good diplomacy lets the boys in the bar finish raping the girl for fear of causing a fuss. Okay, that was unfair.

And on Thursday, President Obama seized the opportunity of the National Prayer Breakfast to forthrightly criticize the 'terrible deeds' . . . committed 'in the name of Christ.'.

[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.

Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.

If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.

Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.

The GOP needs to figure out a way to become more appealing to new constituencies.

One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad.

Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conservative base does not look back fondly on the Bush presidency.

Everyone understands that [democrat Senator Harry Reid] is deliberately lying. The man reads his lies from prepared texts. You can't read from a script and then claim you misspoke.

The progressive notion of the state as a loving, caring parent is becoming a bipartisan affair.

Public unions are the country's foremost advocates for increased taxes at all levels of government.

If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you.

[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.

Tom Friedman says China is so awesome they make kosher pigs.

Americans are very smart about the things they care about, and ignorant about the things they don't.

[A] country without a word to describe its love for what is best within it is a country ill-equipped to defend what is best within it.

The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.

There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical dogma that constrains the scientist.

Historians write favorably, you know, for example, about Stalin because he was doing big things.

Governing involves choosing and making choices between competing goods.

A lot of the things that Trump needs to do to be a popular president requires annoying his biggest fans.

You just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility.

When you create something you're free to explore it however you want to do it.

I think morality is so individual and personal, and people draw their own lines of what that means for them.

I always say I want to eventually shift my career to directing and writing.

You really feel an obligation to someone when they're trusting you to do something, and you promise that you'll come through for them.

Writing has made me a better actor. Acting has made me a better writer. So why wouldn't directing make me a better actor and writer?

I love it, man; I'm 23 years old and I'm lucky enough to write movies as a job! I just feel really blessed and can't believe it's happening.

Be open to other people's ideas. Don't get arrogant about your ideas. Shoot a lot of options so you're not stuck with just one version of something.

I don't like to compare things to other things. It always sounds arrogant in print.

The great romance of your youth is your best friend at that age.

I have other tastes besides comedy. I love comedy. I adore it, but I love dramatic movies just as much.

I've never been into just really silly stuff.

The drama thing was something I've always wanted to do, but the opportunities are rare, and they have to be the right ones.

As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama.

When someone who is known as a comedic actor goes to drama, it often doesn't work out, because they really just chose wrong, I think - or maybe they're just not good actors, I don't know.

In the comedies I've been lucky enough to be a part of a world like Judd Apatow's, where I believe comedy comes from real people.

I'm a different actor than you thought I was. Don't put me in a box. I'm not just some kid running around screaming curse words.

I realized I never played a character that was skilled at anything, or skilled at anything that I couldn't become skilled at.

I'm very, very attracted to morally ambiguous characters, not just pure bad guys or pure good guys.

I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.

One of the greatest moments of my career was on the road promoting 'Superbad' with Michael Cera and Chris Mintz-Plasse. We were showing the movie at colleges.

It's just hard when you're someone who's like hurting a lot of people or deceiving people who trust you, not to bring some of that home with you or inside of you.

Maybe if you play somebody in a certain world people sometimes misinterpret that it's a support of that world or that occupation or something.

People are so funny. There's no winning with commenters or anonymous people. They'd be rude that I was overweight, and now they're rude that I'm healthy.

When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters might be a little funnier, but you're just trying to be honest.