Jake Tapper Quotes
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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 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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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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It's tough for me to draw myself - usually way too self-critical.
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My back isn't great.
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As soon as I wake up, I read my email to see what news developed overnight.
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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's irresponsible to put uncorroborated information on the Internet.
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It matters to people that the president tell them the truth.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.