114 Quotes by Jake Tapper

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    Embrace the humanity of everyone, especially those you don't understand.

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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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    You know what takes effort? Being kind. Being patient. Being respectful.

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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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    'MAD Magazine' put out a book that was a collection of Trump cartoons, and they asked me to do the forward because they knew that I was a fan because I'd done stories and tweeted about 'MAD.' So I did the forward and asked them if I could do a cartoon. They let me, and I did caricatures of myself and Wolf Blitzer.

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    Whenever journalism students ask me what they should be doing, I say that if you're on social media, you should be following a ton of people that you don't necessarily agree with just to get their perspectives.

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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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    It is empirically indecent to make fun of the disabled... That's just indecent.

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    I think it's important to have as diverse of a feed as possible.

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