Jake Tapper Quotes
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I wanted to be a cartoonist, and then I wanted to go into film - not as an actor, but as a writer-director - and then I found myself during film school at the University of Southern California listening to the Clarence Thomas hearings in class on my Walkman, and I realized L.A. was not really for me.
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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.
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There's a long tradition in this country of questioning generals.
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My mom is a hero in a lot of ways because she's the most empathetic and kind person I've ever met.
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It took me years to realize I wanted to be in journalism.
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You write a story, you do a TV show, and if people don't like it, well, you're going to do it again tomorrow.
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I have asked people repeated follow-ups for a while and asked people uncomfortable questions for a while. I just try to hold people accountable.
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I did freelance cartooning off and on from college graduation in 1991 through ABC News hiring me in 2003. I did a weekly comic strip for 'Roll Call' for about nine years. I sold cartoons and caricatures to 'The Los Angeles Times' and 'The Washington Post.' I drew as much as I could. It's really tough to make a living doing it.
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I'm not a member of a political party, and I feel very, very comfortable being independent. Even if I weren't a journalist - if I were doing whatever - I would be an independent.
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It's not empirically wrong to say that Washington isn't working for the American people and Washington does too many things for powerful special interests and it's broken.
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I generally feel that the solution to speech that people find offensive is more speech. You should talk about it, discuss it.
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Equating brutality and despotism with leadership is not an American value.
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They say history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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I'm not a particularly good liar.
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You know who has done a lot of questioning of generals? President Trump.
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You know what takes effort? Being kind. Being patient. Being respectful.
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We've gone through many different permutations of coffee-making, from grinding our own beans to the regular drip to an iced coffee maker.
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I'm an everyday guy - I'm a try-to-write-at-least-15-minutes-every-day-if-not-an-hour-or-two kind of guy. I write in Google docs so that wherever you go, you have access to it.
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Mean is easy. Mean is lazy. Mean is self-satisfied and slothful.
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Don't get me wrong: politicians have been lying for a long time, long before Donald Trump was born, but the degree of just nonstop rage, grievance, prevarication, I haven't seen, probably because we haven't had a direct line from a politician's id to the public before.
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Embrace the humanity of everyone, especially those you don't understand.
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I think that I'm doing my job, and it's nice to be recognized, but I also know that a lot of the people who are happy with me now are not going to be happy with me in four to eight years and that I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing.
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I tried to do a comic strip. I came close, and I met with Universal Press Syndicate in Kansas City, but ultimately, they did not go with my strip.
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There are basic lines of human decency, norms to which society generally agrees and to which we adhere, and we continue to see the Trump presidency eroding these lines.