Jake Tapper Quotes

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Jake Tapper

Profession : Journalist

Birth : March 12, 1969

Equating brutality and despotism with leadership is not an American value.

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I choose to make it my job to not automatically believe what the U.S. government says.

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My job is to be skeptical: skeptical of people like Edward Snowden and skeptical of the U.S. government.

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My job is to not take for granted when somebody says, 'Oh, this is all just a made-up, phony scandal,' or, 'What this person did put the U.S. government at risk.'

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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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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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As soon as I wake up, I read my email to see what news developed overnight.

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I've conditioned myself to believe that almonds are a completely delicious snack, and that they don't taste like paper or get stuck in the back of my mouth.

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I definitely pack coffee if I'm going someplace where it might not be available. When I went to Afghanistan in 2011, I brought a bunch of instant coffee. I didn't need to do that, of course, because army people drink industrial-strength coffee and have it going 24/7.

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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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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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Mean is easy. Mean is lazy. Mean is self-satisfied and slothful.

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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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There are news sources that are just out-and-out lies coming from Europe, coming from other parts of the world.

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We all know members of the House and Senate - especially the House - who are just crazy and say things that aren't true, Democrats and Republicans.

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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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My job, in general, is nonfiction, so writing fiction was liberating. If you can't find the answer to something, you just make it up!

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I'm an everyday guy - I'm a try-to-write-at-least-15-minutes-every-day-if-not-an-hour-or-two kind of guy. I write in Google docs so that wherever you go, you have access to it.

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I don't really get nervous anymore unless there's a big interview.

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