Jimmy Dore

“Comedy should speak truth to power. It should always be aimed upward. When it's aimed downward, it's called bullying.”

“If you put a special prosecutor on anybody in Washington D.C., they're going to find crimes.”

“We should always be willing to talk to those who disagree with us.”

“It's all signals, but there's no substance. We're signaling that we want to help the minority community, but we're not actually helping them. So that's what identity politics is. It's a big diversion.”

“I wouldn't ask Chuck Schumer directions to the freeway.”

“The idea that we have progressives inside the Democratic Party - it's actually more deleterious to the progressive movement to have them there because it gives people the false impression that there's somebody in government fighting for you, that there's one of the parties that are kind of on your side and they aren't.”

“They tell us we're broke all the time, but apparently we have endless money when we need to bomb somebody in the Middle East.”

“I knew a lot of men who were brick-layers. They were 50 years old and looked 70. That job ages you.”

“When I grew up, being a nerd was a bad thing. You didn't want to be one. Now everybody calls themselves that.”

“You know, one thing John Kerry is right about is Trump's foreign policy is kind of incoherent but Joe Biden, his entire career has been nothing but imperialism.”

“It's funny to see how ridiculous the fourth estate is and how horrible the media is.”

“If you're using comedy to shame people for getting informed and questioning authority, you're not doing comedy, you're doing propaganda, 'cause comedy is supposed to poke holes in the status quo and challenge authority and question authority.”

“If you listen to the newsmen who are bought and paid for by defense contractors, they'll tell you that Edward Snowden is nothing more than a narcissitic creep who's an anti-American.”

“Liberals believe a lot of things that are not true.”

“Rachel Maddow calls herself a nerd. You're not a nerd. You're smart, you have your own TV show and you're a lesbian. That's everything I want to be!”

“My concern about lockdowns are shared with the World Health Organization about the effects of lockdowns on working people and economically vulnerable people.”

“I'm very popular with people who are actual progressives, and ironically I'm popular with people on the right because they like that I tell the truth about the Democrats. But I'm not actually popular with the Democrats, which suits me just fine.”

“I am not the sharpest knife in the knife-thing.”

“People are hungry for the truth and they're constantly being gaslit by the corporate media. Let's remember what the corporate media is there to do. They're there to manufacture consent. And consent for who? Consent for the billionaire establishment class that run everything.”

“I think it was such shame that Jon Stewart wasted his moment of having the country's ear and pretending that if everybody just calms down a little bit, everything is going to be OK.”