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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As soon as I wake up, I read my email to see what news developed overnight.
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You know what takes effort? Being kind. Being patient. Being respectful.
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Mean is easy. Mean is lazy. Mean is self-satisfied and slothful.
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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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CNN is in the business of sussing out what is true and what is false.
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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 matters to people that the president tell them the truth.
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It's irresponsible to put uncorroborated information on the Internet.
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Probably like a lot of people, my personal politics are all over the map.
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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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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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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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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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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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Everyone should work in politics to see how horrible it is.
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I have very vivid memories of my parents talking about Nixon, my mom watching Watergate on the black-and-white set in the living room. The mayor at the time in Philadelphia was a guy named Frank Rizzo - a Democrat, a real bully, a racist.
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There are a lot of good writers in TV!