Words matter. These are the best Tucker Carlson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people.
I’m Christian. I’ve made mistakes. I believe fervently in second chances.
The public understands that the government is broke, but many still don’t want to cut programs they enjoy or depend on.
I don’t care what anybody thinks.
Almost nobody gets rich or erudite overnight.
People with conservative temperaments don’t become fighter pilots or presidential candidates – they’re all that way to some extent.
All standards are double standards.
Although virtually all Republicans campaign on fiscal restraint, how many actually care about it deeply?
As a rule, the civil-rights establishment is not punctual.
I’m so pathetically eager for people to love D.C. It’s so sad. It’s like I work for the chamber of commerce or something.
He’ll likely be remembered as a political figure, but I don’t recall Andrew Breitbart ever mentioning electoral politics. It bored him.
You don’t criticize your employer.
Most of the time, you can beat a woman in an argument.
Sharpton is a smart guy. In some ways, he’s a good guy. But a moral arbiter? Let’s not get carried away.
I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.
I’d rather have dinner with Don King than with Mark Furhman. But then, I’m American. I have no perspective.
I have never been one to look beyond today.
Senator McConnell is by all accounts a decent person. He’s pretty conservative, too.
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.
The one thing I’m convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It’s clearly something he enjoys personally.
You can’t fix a problem if you don’t have the words to describe it. You can’t even think about it clearly.
You want people with different life experiences as a backstop against bad decision.
Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already.
I try to tell the truth.
In Washington, no one believes anything unless it comes from ‘The New Yorker,’ ‘New York Times’ editorial page, or ‘The Washington Post.’
In the absence of evidence, superstition. It’s a Middle Ages thing. That’s my theory anyway.
I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn’t be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year’s resolution is not to bark back.
Children born with Down Syndrome are not vegetables, nor are their lives demonstrably not worth living.
I like Sarah Palin.
When it comes to scaring the bourgeoisie into showing up at the polls, nothing works better than negative advertising.
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.
Who laughs less than feminists?
Children with Down Syndrome are not monsters, but uncommonly gentle human beings who can and do lead full lives.
In the Nation of Islam, Akbar Muhammad is a big deal.
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.
Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.
If you want another world war, run up unsustainable debts.
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.
I’ve been in journalism my entire adult life and have often defended it against fellow conservatives who claim the news business is fundamentally corrupt.
To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.
The average Liberian, it turns out, does not share the same assumptions as the average black Methodist minister from Chicago.
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.
Carrying an automatic weapon in a Third World country beyond the easy reach of higher authority? The job description is like a bug light to borderline personalities.
Intelligence is not a moral category.
Maybe I’m flattering myself, but I think my view of humanity has got steadily sunnier since I was 15. I have a higher opinion of politicians, for instance, than I did when I first moved to Washington.
You need, in order to run a country as diverse as ours, a prominently recognized news source.
Seldom has a politician left public office with more self-generated fanfare than Sen. William S. Cohen.
It’s hard to be ambitious if you’re content, isn’t it?
Under no circumstances am I going to criticize my family in public.
To politicize a man’s tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn’t it?
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.
You can look different but have the same values. That’s not diversity; it’s conformity.
I like women.
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.
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.
The Clinton era is over. I think that there would even have been a certain amount of rejoicing among some Republicans if Gore had won or if Ralph Nader had won or if Satan had won.
People say you become more cynical as you get older. That hasn’t been my experience.
One area of liberal phenomenon I support is female bi-sexuality.
I only want to debate people who are more powerful than I am.
Some white people are privileged, some aren’t. Some black people are, some aren’t. It’s strikes me as, by definition, a racist attack in that it’s making a generalization – a negative one – based on skin color.
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.
Limbaugh hosts a radio show. His job is to shock people.
Nobody wants to be seen with a bigot.
Canadians are so easily wounded.
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.
People like entitlements. That’s why we spend so much on them.
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.
The unhappy truth is, learning is hard.
I like bow ties, and I certainly spent a lot of time defending them.
It is increasingly important to be open-minded.
