Tucker Carlson Quotes

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I like bow ties, and I certainly spent a lot of time de

I like bow ties, and I certainly spent a lot of time defending them.
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People who listen to NPR are forever thanking the hosts for ‘sharing,’ or ‘initiating a dialogue,’ or ‘taking the time to explain this very important issue.’
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You want people with different life experiences as a backstop against bad decision.
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I only want to debate people who are more powerful than I am.
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The average Liberian, it turns out, does not share the same assumptions as the average black Methodist minister from Chicago.
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When it comes to scaring the bourgeoisie into showing up at the polls, nothing works better than negative advertising.
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To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.
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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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As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don’t call you back, parts of the story you can’t get. TV gets you access to everyone because people call you back. It also allows you to satisfy your curiosity. I am a very curious person.
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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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I feel like I’ve known Hunter S. Thompson for most of my life. I first encountered him in 1981, when I was 12.
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I am really only interested in new information, not freelance opinion. I don’t really care what you think off the top of your head.
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I can’t wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He’s a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it.
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In the absence of evidence, superstition. It’s a Middle Ages thing. That’s my theory anyway.
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I’m Christian. I’ve made mistakes. I believe fervently in second chances.
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Pat Buchanan likes to fight. But only on TV.
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If you think your average Trump voter in Ohio hates Washington, you should see what Washington thinks about the Trump voter in Ohio.
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I’m not uncomfortable around guns – I’ve hunted for most of my life – but bringing them on stories is considered taboo.
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You can’t fix a problem if you don’t have the words to describe it. You can’t even think about it clearly.
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Nobody wants to be seen with a bigot.
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You don’t criticize your employer.
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If you want another world war, run up unsustainable debts.
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Animals shouldn’t be mistreated.
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I’m not much of an economic conservative, and I’m not conservative at all on foreign policy.
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Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.
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In addition to all the good things it’s done, the Internet has empowered an awful lot of people who would have been best off disempowered, including quite a few bloggers on both sides.
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American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn’t seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.
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The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally without self-awareness, arrogant, stupid – I mean, all the stuff that our ruling class is.
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It is one of the triumphs of modern society that the life of the average person with Down Syndrome has become strikingly normal.
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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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What bothers me is the lack of self-awareness. I don’t know if I have ever met a group less self-aware than political reporters.
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By the time I got to college, mind expansion had lost its appeal.
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If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people.
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It’s hard to be ambitious if you’re content, isn’t it?
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Seldom has a politician left public office with more self-generated fanfare than Sen. William S. Cohen.
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I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter‘s kindergarten class.
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I watched Bill O’Reilly for years.
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You can look different but have the same values. That’s not diversity; it’s conformity.
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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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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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I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.
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I try to tell the truth.
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Living in Washington, you can’t take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don’t believe because they get paid to.
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I have never been one to look beyond today.
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All that chatter you hear from yuppie parents at the playground about how expensive it is to ‘do’ bathrooms? It’s all true. Every word, and worse.
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The second you feel a political imperative, it destroys your art.
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I like women.
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Intelligence is not a moral category.
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I’d been in journalism about two weeks when I realized I would do just about anything to avoid writing, and over the years, I have.
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It’s easy to mock a man who has founded a religion based on John Coltrane, who considers ‘A Love Supreme,’ whatever its merits as a jazz album, to be holy scripture.
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Trump is, in part, a reaction to the intellectual corruption of the Republican Party. That ought to be obvious to his critics, yet somehow it isn’t.
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I am not insecure about being a journalist.
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It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.
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There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration‘s foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational.
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American presidential elections usually amount to a series of overcorrections: Clinton begat Bush, who produced Obama, whose lax border policies fueled the rise of Trump.
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Children with Down Syndrome are not monsters, but uncommonly gentle human beings who can and do lead full lives.
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I do think – I’m sure I’m the lone voice in saying this – that Iran deserves to be annihilated. I think they’re lunatics. I think they’re evil.
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All standards are double standards.
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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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There actually have never been many shows as equally balanced as ‘Crossfire.’
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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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The rapid growth of prenatal testing has had some undeniably positive effects: A woman who knows she will bear a child with a handicap can plan to deliver in a hospital equipped for risky births. And many couples prefer the opportunity to prepare psychologically for the work of raising a disabled child.
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I like Sarah Palin.
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The unhappy truth is, learning is hard.
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Like everyone else, rich people respond to incentives.
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Children born with Down Syndrome are not vegetables, nor are their lives demonstrably not worth living.
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Trump could teach Republicans in Washington a lot if only they stopped posturing long enough to watch carefully.
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In politics, reform never comes before crisis.
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Pat Buchanan has written and said a number of things that are widely understood to be hostile to Jews and to Israel.
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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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I have no time for political hacks who say things they don’t believe because they get paid to.
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No agency is more acutely aware of how potentially damning and politically sensitive background investigations can be than the FBI; it conducts those investigations, after all.
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