Jake Tapper Quotes
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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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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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You know who has done a lot of questioning of generals? President Trump.
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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'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 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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Equating brutality and despotism with leadership is not an American value.
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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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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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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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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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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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They say history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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My back isn't great.
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I'm not a particularly good liar.
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Embrace the humanity of everyone, especially those you don't understand.
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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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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'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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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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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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People mess up. They say things when their guard is down.
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'MAD Magazine' put out a book that was a collection of Trump cartoons, and they asked me to do the forward because they knew that I was a fan because I'd done stories and tweeted about 'MAD.' So I did the forward and asked them if I could do a cartoon. They let me, and I did caricatures of myself and Wolf Blitzer.
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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.