April 2012
“When you look at America, you have to concede that we have failed. Most Americans today are worse off than they were fifteen years ago. A full-time worker in the US is worse off today than he or she was 44 years ago. That is astounding – half a century of stagnation. The economic system is not delivering. It does not matter whether a few people at the top benefitted tremendously – when the majority of citizens are not better off, the economic system is not working.”
— Joseph Stiglitz: Politics Is at the Root of the Problem | The European
“Everything that’s wrong with America is here tonight.”
—Kimmel
“Just to clear things up for the extreme right-wingers, here’s the difference between Bill Maher and Rush Limbaugh: the people who watch Bill Maher know he’s an asshole.”
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Jimmy Kimmel
True story.
“You know, President Obama wanted to move the dinner to the Kennedy Center this year but the Republicans wanted to keep it here at the Hilton, so they compromised, and here we are at the Hilton.”
—Jimmy Kimmel
“I’d be remiss if I didn’t congratulate the Huffington Post on their Pulitzer Prize. You deserve it, Arianna. There’s no one else out there ‘linking’ to the kinds of hard-hitting journalism that HuffPo is linking to, every, single day.”
—President Obama
“Four years ago I was locked in a brutal primary battle with Hillary Clinton. Four years later she won’t stop drunk-texting me from Cartagena.”
—President Obama, White House Correspondent’s Dinner (via apsies)
