Jake Tapper Quotes
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It's tough for me to draw myself - usually way too self-critical.
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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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What would McCarthy, what would Nixon, what would Bill Clinton have done if they'd had Twitter?
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In 2009, 2010, the Obama people were the ones mad at me.
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I don't really get nervous anymore unless there's a big interview.
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I think it's important to have as diverse of a feed as possible.
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My mom is from Canada. Both my grandparents were from Canada.
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I'm trying to spend less time with the phone when the kids are awake in general. I need to get better about that. It's a perennial New Year's resolution.
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My job is not to be liked. My job is to tell the truth.
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We often think our legacy will be our achievements. But often our legacy will be whether we set a moral standard.
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I'm a collaborative person - it makes me better - and sometimes taking that collaboration to Twitter is helpful.
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Professionally and personally, I try to be as agnostic as possible, try to see things as objectively as possible.
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Politicians don't like tough coverage, and their protectors try to destroy the messengers.
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I get a lot of heat from the Left, which is bizarre. I get a lot of heat from the Right, too, but the vitriol is from the Left.
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I still think of myself as a Philadelphian. I still root for the Philadelphia teams. Other than my house, I still feel most at home in terms of cities when I'm in Philly.
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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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Actors are tough because they're not used to challenging questions - other than from paparazzi. And so you just ask one perfectly legitimate question, but one that they're not comfortable answering, and all of a sudden they look at you, and you're the paparazzi.
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I'm quite calm when all is well.
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Nastiness and mockery and meanness sometimes seem as if they're spreading like a contagion.
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I've always been a ravenous consumer of opinion. When I was in my high school library and my college library, I would read 'National Review' and I would read 'The Nation' and I would read 'The American Spectator' and I would read 'Mother Jones.'
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Trump is most fun to draw - just a great mash of caricature-able features, from bouffant to eyebrows and scowl, to the high cheekbones and the regal pride.
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As a fan and collector of 'MAD' magazines as a kid, I am well aware that my art is unworthy. I remain in absolute awe of 'MAD' artist Mort Drucker and loved Wally Wood and Harvey Kurtzman and Al Jaffee and Don Martin and Angelo Torres and Peter Kuper and Sergio Aragones.
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Politicians lie.
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Washington, as we know it, is essentially run by men and women who are not elected or even appointed to their posts, staff members unaccountable to traditional constituencies. They rise according to the needs and whims of their own special constituency of elites.