Jake Tapper Quotes

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Jake Tapper

Profession : Journalist

Birth : March 12, 1969

Professionally and personally, I try to be as agnostic as possible, try to see things as objectively as possible.

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I can be fairly boring.

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I generally feel that the solution to speech that people find offensive is more speech. You should talk about it, discuss it.

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Everyone should work in politics to see how horrible it is.

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I think standing up for facts and decency is important, and we should've done more of it back in 2015 and 2016.

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I think there are periods in this country when behavior is abhorrent: McCarthy, Watergate, Bill Clinton. It's just a question of how the checks and balances in the American system work and how leaders stand up to it or don't stand up to it.

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My journalistic heroes are Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel and Tim Russert and Edward R. Murrow, among others, because they were tough.

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My dad's a hero in a lot of ways. He was a 1960s and 1970s hippie and a member of the protest crowd.

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My mom is a hero in a lot of ways because she's the most empathetic and kind person I've ever met.

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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 irresponsible to put uncorroborated information on the Internet.

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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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President Obama was not friendly to the press, but the press was very friendly to President Obama.

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I'm quite calm when all is well.

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I think that I'm doing my job, and it's nice to be recognized, but I also know that a lot of the people who are happy with me now are not going to be happy with me in four to eight years and that I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing.

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I wanted to be a cartoonist, and then I wanted to go into film - not as an actor, but as a writer-director - and then I found myself during film school at the University of Southern California listening to the Clarence Thomas hearings in class on my Walkman, and I realized L.A. was not really for me.

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I'm not a particularly good liar.

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There are a lot of good writers in TV!

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Print and television journalism are very different, and it's not like one is better than the other.

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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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