Jon Stewart Quotes

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

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

- Jon Stewart

The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they're going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him.

- 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

I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963.

- Jon Stewart

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.

- Jon Stewart

I heard Dennis Kucinich say in a debate, 'When I'm president... and I just wanted to stop him and say, 'Dude.'

- Jon Stewart

Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.

- 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

Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you know we have a strong army, when you can actually tell your enemy exactly where your camp is and what its name is.

- Jon Stewart

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.

- Jon Stewart

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

- Jon Stewart

I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.

- Jon Stewart

I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm.

- Jon Stewart

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.

- Jon Stewart

Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.

- Jon Stewart

The seven marvels that best represent man's achievements over the last 2,000 years will be determined by Internet vote... so look for Howard Stern's Private Parts to come in No. 1.

- 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

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

- 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

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

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

- Jon Stewart

More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.

- Jon Stewart

If you're going to give people 20 minutes of news satire, you've also got to give them Tiffani-Amber Thiessen or you're going to have rioting in the streets.

- 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

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

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.

- Jon Stewart

If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.

- Jon Stewart

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

- Jon Stewart

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

- Jon Stewart

I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.

- Jon Stewart

If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news.

- Jon Stewart

Why is it that if you take advantage of a corporate tax break you're a smart businessman, but if you take advantage of something so you don't go hungry, you're a moocher?

- Jon Stewart

There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the web for hours about who their favorite character on 'Friends' is.

- 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

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

- Jon Stewart

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

- Jon Stewart