Tucker Carlson
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.Collection: New
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.Collection: Morning
The unhappy truth is, learning is hard.Collection: Learning
In politics, reform never comes before crisis.Collection: Politics
The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.Collection: Teacher
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.Collection: Sad
The public understands that the government is broke, but many still don't want to cut programs they enjoy or depend on.Collection: Government
I like women.Collection: Women
I'm Christian. I've made mistakes. I believe fervently in second chances.
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.
You can look different but have the same values. That's not diversity; it's conformity.
One area of liberal phenomenon I support is female bi-sexuality.
Children born with Down Syndrome are not vegetables, nor are their lives demonstrably not worth living.
There's nothing scarier than a reckless prosecutor.
It is increasingly important to be open-minded.
Most of the time, you can beat a woman in an argument.
I try to tell the truth.
People often refer to Dubai as the Hong Kong of the Gulf, but it's really more like Vegas.
Children with Down Syndrome are not monsters, but uncommonly gentle human beings who can and do lead full lives.
It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.
If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people.
Certain Arabs love Dubai because it's not at all like where they live. Certain others hate it for the same reason. When you hear an Osama bin Laden sympathizer rant about the decadence and hypocrisy of the Arab ruling class, you can be certain he's picturing a nightclub in Dubai.
You can learn a lot about Pat Buchanan by talking to his campaign staff, particularly the ones who have quit or been fired.
People like entitlements. That's why we spend so much on them.
I feel like I've known Hunter S. Thompson for most of my life. I first encountered him in 1981, when I was 12.
In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.
There's no law of nature that says America must remain the most powerful country in the world.
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.
There will always be some who, for whatever reason, find themselves dependent on the charity of others. But when half the population is along for the ride, the system becomes dangerously out of balance. Things fall apart.
I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.
By the time I got to college, mind expansion had lost its appeal.
I don't care what anybody thinks.
To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?
To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.
The tax code is becoming steadily more progressive, which shouldn't surprise anyone who understands power politics. It's always easier to force sacrifice on an unpopular minority than it is to ask the majority to pony up.
The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.
I like bow ties, and I certainly spent a lot of time defending them.
Pat Buchanan has written and said a number of things that are widely understood to be hostile to Jews and to Israel.
You can't fix a problem if you don't have the words to describe it. You can't even think about it clearly.
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.
I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.
In the Nation of Islam, Akbar Muhammad is a big deal.
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.
I watched Bill O'Reilly for years.
The average Liberian, it turns out, does not share the same assumptions as the average black Methodist minister from Chicago.
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.
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.
You want people with different life experiences as a backstop against bad decision.
I can't wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He's a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it.
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.