Jake Tapper Quotes
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The only politician in my family was my grandfather's grandfather, who was the mayor of Winnipeg from Jan. 1, 1917, until Jan. 5, 1917, because he lost the recount. So he was mayor of Winnipeg for four days.
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Whenever journalism students ask me what they should be doing, I say that if you're on social media, you should be following a ton of people that you don't necessarily agree with just to get their perspectives.
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It's not always easy for a mainstream organization to accept what a blog is.
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My job is to not take for granted when somebody says, 'Oh, this is all just a made-up, phony scandal,' or, 'What this person did put the U.S. government at risk.'
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There's no bias when it comes to facts, and there's no bias when it comes to decency.
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My journalistic heroes are Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel and Tim Russert and Edward R. Murrow, among others, because they were tough.
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Normally, at a debate or a town hall, I would be quick to say to someone, 'That was rude,' or, 'We're going to try to keep it civil here,' or, 'Let's not have personal attacks.'
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I do breakfast first, which is a small bowl of oatmeal and some sort of protein, like hard-boiled eggs. And then I work out - 40 minutes of cardio and maybe some strength training.
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A lot of the stuff I blog is either stuff I'm reporting anyway for ABC News internally and figure I might as well put it up on the blog. Or it's stuff I'm just interested in, or I read about it, or I hear about it, and I'm just curious.
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I choose to make it my job to not automatically believe what the U.S. government says.
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We all know members of the House and Senate - especially the House - who are just crazy and say things that aren't true, Democrats and Republicans.
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I think there are periods in this country when behavior is abhorrent: McCarthy, Watergate, Bill Clinton. It's just a question of how the checks and balances in the American system work and how leaders stand up to it or don't stand up to it.
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I certainly don't think that it's the job of any journalist to make the presidency work.
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Print and television journalism are very different, and it's not like one is better than the other.
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I think standing up for facts and decency is important, and we should've done more of it back in 2015 and 2016.
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There are news sources that are just out-and-out lies coming from Europe, coming from other parts of the world.
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My job is to be skeptical: skeptical of people like Edward Snowden and skeptical of the U.S. government.
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I've conditioned myself to believe that almonds are a completely delicious snack, and that they don't taste like paper or get stuck in the back of my mouth.
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President Obama was not friendly to the press, but the press was very friendly to President Obama.
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I definitely pack coffee if I'm going someplace where it might not be available. When I went to Afghanistan in 2011, I brought a bunch of instant coffee. I didn't need to do that, of course, because army people drink industrial-strength coffee and have it going 24/7.
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My job, in general, is nonfiction, so writing fiction was liberating. If you can't find the answer to something, you just make it up!
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There's a long tradition in this country of questioning generals.
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My dad's a hero in a lot of ways. He was a 1960s and 1970s hippie and a member of the protest crowd.
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Everybody should work in their nation's capitol and see how politics actually work because it was the most eye opening experience of my life.