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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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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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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It took me years to realize I wanted to be in journalism.
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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 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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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 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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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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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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Mean is easy. Mean is lazy. Mean is self-satisfied and slothful.
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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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You know what takes effort? Being kind. Being patient. Being respectful.
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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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Probably like a lot of people, my personal politics are all over the map.
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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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It is empirically indecent to make fun of the disabled... That's just indecent.
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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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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.
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You know what takes effort? Being kind, being patient, being respectful, telling someone how you feel politely instead of just avoiding them for six weeks.
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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.