Jon Stewart v. Jim DeMint - The Daily Show - 1/11/12

From Part 1 - Jon Stewart: "The thing that confuses me about this, with all the terrible strangling of regulation, why have the wealthy done so better than the rest of the country, if the regulations are so bad to the job creators." - "When is it going to trickle down?" - "If we eliminate the Bush Tax Cuts and the Alternative Minimum Tax the Debt will be gone by 2026" - "I feel like my believing that I want government better not government gone doesn't make me a Communist." - "The rich are not burdened in this country."- "I don't understand this idea that any intervention from the government to provide a minor social safety net is a freedom-hating Communist-loving plot." - "Is this when we arm wrestle?"

From Part 2 - Jon Stewart: "There is no question regulation could be done better, but the idea that I hear from one side of the country is that corporations can somehow manage better...I don't want to go back to the 1900s." "You say we may not be a country anymore" - "The sense I get from the book is you believe that the Democrats don't have an interest in helping the poor, they have an interest in creating a dependent underclass, that is purely accepting their largesse in return for votes, you ascribe to them motivations that are incredibly Machiavellian and incredibly pernicious" -

"It seems to me part of what's holding us back from having that discussion is the type of rhetoric that comes through some of these more politicized plans that puts the side that puts the has a disagreement with you on the defensive about not just their motivations, but about their love of this country, and their patriotism, and that is toxin that is that once injected into that pool is very difficult to remove." - "If people understood what made this country great, I think one of the things that made this country great is that nobody got here by themselves." "Capitalism is a wonderful system but there is no question that there is collateral damage...There is a reason why unions arose, and why regulation arose" - "South Carolina vs. Michigan is never going to be the same as China."