Quotes from Jake Tapper

Exercise has its hazards. Runners are sidelined by shinsplints, freestylists by swimmer's ear, and who hasn't heard of tennis elbow? But the fitness buff of the '90s has a far greater worry. StairMaster Butt.

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.

They say history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.

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.

A lot of the stuff I blog is either stuff I'm reporting anyway for ABC News internally and figure I might as well put it up on the blog. Or it's stuff I'm just interested in, or I read about it, or I hear about it, and I'm just curious.

I think there is room for improvement for all of the media, and that certainly, and especially, includes me.

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

Normally, at a debate or a town hall, I would be quick to say to someone, 'That was rude,' or, 'We're going to try to keep it civil here,' or, 'Let's not have personal attacks.'

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.

There's a long tradition in this country of questioning generals.

It's irresponsible to put uncorroborated information on the Internet.

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.

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

It took me years to realize I wanted to be in journalism.

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

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.

People mess up. They say things when their guard is down.

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

You write a story, you do a TV show, and if people don't like it, well, you're going to do it again tomorrow.

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

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.'

I have asked people repeated follow-ups for a while and asked people uncomfortable questions for a while. I just try to hold people accountable.

Nastiness and mockery and meanness sometimes seem as if they're spreading like a contagion.

We often think our legacy will be our achievements. But often our legacy will be whether we set a moral standard.