Jimmy Dore

“I watched comics the way other people watch magicians. 'How do they do that?' It was always mesmerizing to me, but I didn't think I could do it myself.”

“Joe Biden not only voted for the Iraq war, he shamed Democrats who weren't supporting it. He was a vocal supporter of it.”

“Other countries are not doing to their people what we are doing to our people during COVID. Every other country is making sure their workers, if they shut their business down, get their wages paid.”

“Comedy's pretty delicate - more delicate than people realize.”

“I actually have a following because people are hungry for the truth. I'm giving people something they can't get anywhere else.”

“The thing about stand-up is that it's so easy. You just show up and talk. But you can get lazy doing that.”

“I don't preach division. I preach unity.”

“Why do you think it is that Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer are the leaders in the Senate and Nancy is the leader in the House? Because they're not leaders. Those people have negative charisma.”

“My crowd is very much like the George Carlin crowd. When I used to go see George Carlin, I always remarked at how his crowd was everybody. There were hippies, there were guys in business suits, there were kids, there were elderly people, everybody in between: men, women, Black, white, Mexican, Asian, everybody. And that's my crowd.”

“When you're elected to congress, they tell you that you're going to spend 4-hours a day talking to rich people to get more money for your next election. Then you wonder why their policies and laws reflect the interests of rich people, because that's who they're talking to all day.”

“The establishment has learned how to co-opt identity politics to put the brakes on economic progress and justice. So I would say if you want to help Black people, nothing would help them more than a free college student loan relief and Medicare for all and a living wage.”

“The difference between Al Jazeera and CNN is that CNN likes to show the bombs taking off. Al Jazeera likes to show when they land.”

“Biden told America that if we voted for Ossoff and Warnock, we're going to get $2,000 checks the next day. That is misinformation because we did not get it.”

“The one piece of policy it seemed that everybody agreed on was that the Iraq war was a good idea, that's what it seemed like.”

“That's what Bernie Sanders has turned into, a late night talk show host who's completely ineffective as a Senator, and tweets out platitudes and will not use the power of his movement to get anything done.”

“Lockdowns are not tyrannical - closing down people's businesses as a matter of policy without providing workers financial relief is.”

“There's already an IRS - why didn't the IRS get him for tax fraud? There's already an SEC and whoever else, why didn't they get Manafort for his bank fraud or the FBI? We already have agencies who are supposed to investigate this stuff. Why do we need a special prosecutor to investigate tax fraud? We don't.”

“I do not believe COVID-19 restrictions are a conspiracy.”

“I watch C-SPAN for fun.”