Jake Tapper Quotes
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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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There's a long tradition in this country of questioning generals.
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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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McCarthyism and Trumpism are very different. They stand for very different things, but the technique of the big lie, smearing and telling lies, you know, McCarthy was doing that. At the time, the media, Democrats, and Republicans were all paralyzed - not all, but most of them were paralyzed. They didn't know how to deal with this.
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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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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'm not a particularly good liar.
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Probably like a lot of people, my personal politics are all over the map.
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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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Mean is easy. Mean is lazy. Mean is self-satisfied and slothful.
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You know what takes effort? Being kind. Being patient. Being respectful.
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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'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 is empirically indecent to make fun of the disabled... That's just indecent.
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Resist the temptation to subject yourself only to that which re-affirms what you already think.
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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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It matters to people that the president tell them the truth.
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You know who has done a lot of questioning of generals? President Trump.
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I don't want to compare President Obama and President Trump on these issues, because they're different, and the scale isn't even remotely the same. But President Obama said things that weren't true and got away with it more for a variety of reasons, and one is the media was much more supportive of him.
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They say history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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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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Exercise has its hazards. Runners are sidelined by shinsplints, freestylists by swimmer's ear, and who hasn't heard of tennis elbow? But the fitness buff of the '90s has a far greater worry. StairMaster Butt.