Tucker Carlson Quotes

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Tucker Carlson

Profession : Journalist

Birth : May 16, 1969

There's almost nothing that upsets Americans more than the idea that somewhere, somehow, somebody is getting his feelings hurt.

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Nobody wants to be seen with a bigot.

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I'd rather have dinner with Don King than with Mark Furhman. But then, I'm American. I have no perspective.

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He'll likely be remembered as a political figure, but I don't recall Andrew Breitbart ever mentioning electoral politics. It bored him.

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There's no law of nature that says America must remain the most powerful country in the world.

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People like entitlements. That's why we spend so much on them.

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Senator McConnell is by all accounts a decent person. He's pretty conservative, too.

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Although virtually all Republicans campaign on fiscal restraint, how many actually care about it deeply?

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The public understands that the government is broke, but many still don't want to cut programs they enjoy or depend on.

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America is secure because we can afford the strongest military in history. Once the U.S. economy is no longer dominant, we are no longer safe, and the world becomes chaotic.

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I've been in journalism my entire adult life and have often defended it against fellow conservatives who claim the news business is fundamentally corrupt.

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Speaking fluent English - like doing long division or successfully rewiring a 220-volt electrical outlet - is not a skill you're born with. It's something you learn, occasionally even by opening some old dictionary.

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The unhappy truth is, learning is hard.

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Get-educated-quick schemes are usually about as sound as subprime mortgage-backed securities: Enticing but basically fraudulent.

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Almost nobody gets rich or erudite overnight.

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Sharpton is a smart guy. In some ways, he's a good guy. But a moral arbiter? Let's not get carried away.

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Journalists typically don't carry weapons, even in war zones, for fear of compromising their status as neutral observers. If you're armed, the theory goes, other armed people will consider you a target.

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Apart from its dangers, much of Iraq isn't very interesting to look at. The landscape is flat and dun colored. The dirt just beyond the highway is littered with hunks of twisted and mangled metal, some of it the detritus of wars, some of it just unclaimed junk. The countryside looks muddy and broken.

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Carrying an automatic weapon in a Third World country beyond the easy reach of higher authority? The job description is like a bug light to borderline personalities.

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As a rule, the civil-rights establishment is not punctual.

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