Jake Tapper Quotes
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My back isn't great.
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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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Probably like a lot of people, my personal politics are all over the map.
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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 is empirically indecent to make fun of the disabled... That's just indecent.
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As soon as I wake up, I read my email to see what news developed overnight.
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It's irresponsible to put uncorroborated information on the Internet.
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CNN is in the business of sussing out what is true and what is false.
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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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People mess up. They say things when their guard is down.
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It's tough for me to draw myself - usually way too self-critical.
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It matters to people that the president tell them the truth.
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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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I don't really get nervous anymore unless there's a big interview.
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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 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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Resist the temptation to subject yourself only to that which re-affirms what you already think.
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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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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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The Patriots cheat. This is just a fact as established by investigations. They're a cheating team.
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Facts matter a great deal to me.
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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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My kids are good artists, and they do a pretty good version of Dad in their caricatures.
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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.'