Jake Tapper Quotes
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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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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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It's tough for me to draw myself - usually way too self-critical.
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CNN is in the business of sussing out what is true and what is false.
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My back isn't great.
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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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It matters to people that the president tell them the truth.
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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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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.
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I listen to a lot of criticism. From the Left and the Right and from everywhere. I mean, everybody's a media critic. And sometimes I think it's on point, and other times, I think about it and consider it and then might ultimately disagree with it. But I do listen to it; I really do.
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It's irresponsible to put uncorroborated information on the Internet.
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As soon as I wake up, I read my email to see what news developed overnight.
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People mess up. They say things when their guard is down.
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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 don't really get nervous anymore unless there's a big interview.
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What would McCarthy, what would Nixon, what would Bill Clinton have done if they'd had Twitter?
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My mom is a nurse; my dad is a pediatrician. They were born in the 1940s, and they were both inspired to fight against injustice, whether it was the injustices of the Vietnam War or Watergate or children in poverty or oppression of African Americans in Philadelphia where I was growing up.
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The Patriots cheat. This is just a fact as established by investigations. They're a cheating team.
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I lost a great uncle in World War II who was with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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When you write fiction, there were things about Washington that I've experienced and wanted to write about, including the swamping nature of it, the compromises people come to town and are forced to make, and also, when writing about Joe McCarthy, the indecency and lies that he put forward that people didn't take a stand about.
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CNN wants me to tell the news in a way that seems genuine and authentic. They don't want me to be Ron Burgundy.
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There are a lot of good writers in TV!
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My kids are good artists, and they do a pretty good version of Dad in their caricatures.