Jake Tapper Quotes
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As soon as I wake up, I read my email to see what news developed overnight.
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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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CNN is in the business of sussing out what is true and what is false.
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People mess up. They say things when their guard is down.
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Mean is easy. Mean is lazy. Mean is self-satisfied and slothful.
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It's irresponsible to put uncorroborated information on the Internet.
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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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It is empirically indecent to make fun of the disabled... That's just indecent.
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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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Probably like a lot of people, my personal politics are all over the map.
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It matters to people that the president tell them the truth.
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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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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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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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It's tough for me to draw myself - usually way too self-critical.
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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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I lost a great uncle in World War II who was with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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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 the exact opposite of my job to take what the government says at face value and say, 'This is the truth because the government says it, and the government never lies.'
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Resist the temptation to subject yourself only to that which re-affirms what you already think.
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Facts matter a great deal to me.
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My kids are good artists, and they do a pretty good version of Dad in their caricatures.
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I have a wife and a son and daughter. What do I need to do to make their lives better, happier? What can I do in terms of my time or my attention given that I am very busy at work? That's a personal rule of thumb I live by from the moment I get up to the moment I go to bed.
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Everyone should work in politics to see how horrible it is.