The Daily Show

Notable political guests

Presidents and vice-presidents

• Bill Clinton
• Al Gore

Cabinet secretaries and other advisors

• Madeleine Albright, former United States Secretary of State
• Richard Clarke, former anti-terrorism advisor
• Karen Hughes
• Ari Fleischer, former Bush White House Press Secretary
• Henry Kissinger, former United States Secretary of State
• Paul O'Neill, former United States Secretary of the Treasury
• Richard Perle
• Colin Powell former United States Secretary of State (Stewart stated on the show that this was probably the closest he would ever get to the Bush Administration)
• Robert Reich, former United States Secretary of Labor
• Tom Ridge, former United States Secretary of Homeland Security
• Christine Todd Whitman, former Governor of New Jersey and Administrator of the EPA

Senators

• Joe Biden, (D) Delaware
• Hillary Rodham Clinton, (D) New York
• Norm Coleman, (R) Minnesota
• Tom Daschle, (D) South Dakota^
• Bob Dole, (R) Kansas
• John Edwards, (D) North Carolina (announced candidacy for 2004 Presidential Election on the show)
• Gary Hart, (D) Colorado^
• Kay Bailey Hutchison, (R) Texas
• Bob Kerrey, (D) Nebraska^
• John Kerry, 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, (D) Massachusetts
• Joseph Lieberman, (D) Connecticut
• Trent Lott, (R) Mississippi
• John McCain, (R) Arizona
• Zell Miller, (D) Georgia^
• Carol Moseley-Braun, (D) Illinois^
• Ben Nelson, (D) Nebraska
• Rick Santorum, (R) Pennsylvania
• Charles Schumer, (D) New York

^ - non-sitting Senator

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Congressmen

• Henry Bonilla, (R)
• Dick Gephardt, (D)
• Newt Gingrich, (R) also former Speaker of the House
• Dennis Kucinich, (D)

Mayors

• Michael Bloomberg (Mayor of New York City, NY)
• Rudy Giuliani (former Mayor of New York City, NY)
• Ed Koch (former Mayor of New York City, NY)

Governors

• Mario Cuomo, former Governor of New York
• Marc Racicot, former Governor of Montana and former chairman of the Republican National Committee
• William Weld, former Governor of Massachusetts
• Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico

Other presidential candidates

• Pat Buchanan, presidential candidate in 2000 for the Reform Party
• Gen. Wesley Clark-Ret.
• Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee
• Rev. Al Sharpton
• Ralph Nader
• John Kerry

Other political guests

• Donna Brazile, former campaign manager for Al Gore
• Ed Gillespie, former chairman of the Republican National Committee
• Terry McAuliffe, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee
• Ken Mehlman, campaign manager for George W. Bush in 2004 and current chairman of the Republican National Committee
• Michael Moore
• Richard Perle
• Al Franken
• Archbishop Desmond Tutu
• Ambassador Joseph Wilson
• Tom Ridge, former U.S. Homeland Security chief
• Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, simultaneously (unheard-of for the show)
• Independent pollster John Zogby