Quotes from Jake Tapper

Many troops were far more proficient in PowerPoint than they were with firearms, so

I am sure because I am confident in the idea of the United States of America. I believe that the combination of checks and balances and a free press and our democratically elected representatives will expose charlatans. I believe in the good sense of the American people, and I know in my soul that truth will win out.

She'd always found animals easier to understand than humans; they were so refreshingly straightforward and real.

the disquieting hour before dawn when it feels as if no one else is alive.

When our wars are determined not by the threat of Nazism or racism or Communism but by the influence on policy-makers of those those who stand to reap financial benefits from the use of these arms - that, Charlie, is my biggest fear for this country.

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But falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, as Jonathan Swift once said.

Well, you know what they say: One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

Dusk came earlier in the valley than in places outside the mountains' muscular shadows.

You go through more bestsellers than a McCarthy bonfire.

I may be doing nothing to stop the war in Korea, or nothing to balance the budget, or nothing to solve anything, but there'll be a lot of name-calling, there'll be all sorts of headlines!' Lodge pledged. 'The trivial will reach a new place in American politics and believe me: when you consider the place it has had in previous administrations, that is no idle boast!

When a rat pokes his head up from the sewer, he needs to be hit on the head with a shovel immediately. You cannot just sit back and think, 'Well, it's just one rat' or 'That's somebody else's problem.' Because it's never just one rat, and it eventually becomes your problem.

Declaration of Conscience," delivered on the Senate floor, derided McCarthy's "Four Horsemen of Calumny—Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear." She and Kefauver were thus allies against