Jake Tapper Quotes
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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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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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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 don't really get nervous anymore unless there's a big interview.
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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 think it's important to have as diverse of a feed as possible.
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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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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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In 2009, 2010, the Obama people were the ones mad at me.
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There are a lot of good writers in TV!
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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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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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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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I'm quite calm when all is well.
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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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Politicians don't like tough coverage, and their protectors try to destroy the messengers.
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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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My first race was '99/2000. At that time, I was at 'Salon,' and I was basically their campaign reporter, so I would just jump around from race to race, candidate to candidate.
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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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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.
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Nastiness and mockery and meanness sometimes seem as if they're spreading like a contagion.
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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.