Quotes from Jake Tapper

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

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

CNN wants me to tell the news in a way that seems genuine and authentic. They don't want me to be Ron Burgundy.

What would McCarthy, what would Nixon, what would Bill Clinton have done if they'd had Twitter?

I tried to do a comic strip. I came close, and I met with Universal Press Syndicate in Kansas City, but ultimately, they did not go with my strip.

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.

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!

Everybody should work in their nation's capitol and see how politics actually work because it was the most eye opening experience of my life.

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

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

I don't want to compare President Obama and President Trump on these issues, because they're different, and the scale isn't even remotely the same. But President Obama said things that weren't true and got away with it more for a variety of reasons, and one is the media was much more supportive of him.

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.

It's not empirically wrong to say that Washington isn't working for the American people and Washington does too many things for powerful special interests and it's broken.

My kids are good artists, and they do a pretty good version of Dad in their caricatures.

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

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

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

I'm not a particularly good liar.

In 2009, 2010, the Obama people were the ones mad at me.

Probably like a lot of people, my personal politics are all over the map.

No president likes leaks, but it's worth noting candidate Trump's path to power was tread on a road of leaks. He didn't have a problem with leaks then. It's not a moral position if you only hold it when it applies to you.

The human soul isn't sold once but rather slowly and methodically and piece by piece.

If there's a world with ghosts, shouldn't we be constantly walking through hundreds of apparitions of just regular old people?

What his time in Afghanistan was teaching him was that there needed to be better reasons, stronger threats to national security, before the United States deployed its sons and daughters. The abstract threat of terror was not enough,