I don't really get nervous anymore unless there's a big interview.
— Jake Tapper
Actors are tough because they're not used to challenging questions - other than from paparazzi. And so you just ask one perfectly legitimate question, but one that they're not comfortable answering, and all of a sudden they look at you, and you're the paparazzi.
You know what takes effort? Being kind, being patient, being respectful, telling someone how you feel politely instead of just avoiding them for six weeks.
The Patriots cheat. This is just a fact as established by investigations. They're a cheating team.
We've gone through many different permutations of coffee-making, from grinding our own beans to the regular drip to an iced coffee maker.
I'm a collaborative person - it makes me better - and sometimes taking that collaboration to Twitter is helpful.
My job is to be skeptical: skeptical of people like Edward Snowden and skeptical of the U.S. government.
There's no bias when it comes to facts, and there's no bias when it comes to decency.
There's a long tradition in this country of questioning generals.
Whenever journalism students ask me what they should be doing, I say that if you're on social media, you should be following a ton of people that you don't necessarily agree with just to get their perspectives.
My kids are good artists, and they do a pretty good version of Dad in their caricatures.
Embrace the humanity of everyone, especially those you don't understand.
In 2009, 2010, the Obama people were the ones mad at me.
I have asked people repeated follow-ups for a while and asked people uncomfortable questions for a while. I just try to hold people accountable.
My back isn't great.
Print and television journalism are very different, and it's not like one is better than the other.
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.
I'm an everyday guy - I'm a try-to-write-at-least-15-minutes-every-day-if-not-an-hour-or-two kind of guy. I write in Google docs so that wherever you go, you have access to it.
We all know members of the House and Senate - especially the House - who are just crazy and say things that aren't true, Democrats and Republicans.
Mean is easy. Mean is lazy. Mean is self-satisfied and slothful.
I definitely pack coffee if I'm going someplace where it might not be available. When I went to Afghanistan in 2011, I brought a bunch of instant coffee. I didn't need to do that, of course, because army people drink industrial-strength coffee and have it going 24/7.
As soon as I wake up, I read my email to see what news developed overnight.
It's the exact opposite of my job to take what the government says at face value and say, 'This is the truth because the government says it, and the government never lies.'
I choose to make it my job to not automatically believe what the U.S. government says.
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.
McCarthyism and Trumpism are very different. They stand for very different things, but the technique of the big lie, smearing and telling lies, you know, McCarthy was doing that. At the time, the media, Democrats, and Republicans were all paralyzed - not all, but most of them were paralyzed. They didn't know how to deal with this.
I did freelance cartooning off and on from college graduation in 1991 through ABC News hiring me in 2003. I did a weekly comic strip for 'Roll Call' for about nine years. I sold cartoons and caricatures to 'The Los Angeles Times' and 'The Washington Post.' I drew as much as I could. It's really tough to make a living doing it.
'MAD Magazine' put out a book that was a collection of Trump cartoons, and they asked me to do the forward because they knew that I was a fan because I'd done stories and tweeted about 'MAD.' So I did the forward and asked them if I could do a cartoon. They let me, and I did caricatures of myself and Wolf Blitzer.
Nastiness and mockery and meanness sometimes seem as if they're spreading like a contagion.
Politicians don't like tough coverage, and their protectors try to destroy the messengers.
Normally, at a debate or a town hall, I would be quick to say to someone, 'That was rude,' or, 'We're going to try to keep it civil here,' or, 'Let's not have personal attacks.'
My first race was '99/2000. At that time, I was at 'Salon,' and I was basically their campaign reporter, so I would just jump around from race to race, candidate to candidate.
There are a lot of good writers in TV!
I think that I'm doing my job, and it's nice to be recognized, but I also know that a lot of the people who are happy with me now are not going to be happy with me in four to eight years and that I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing.
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!
There are news sources that are just out-and-out lies coming from Europe, coming from other parts of the world.
We often think our legacy will be our achievements. But often our legacy will be whether we set a moral standard.
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.
There are basic lines of human decency, norms to which society generally agrees and to which we adhere, and we continue to see the Trump presidency eroding these lines.
My job is to not take for granted when somebody says, 'Oh, this is all just a made-up, phony scandal,' or, 'What this person did put the U.S. government at risk.'
Equating brutality and despotism with leadership is not an American value.
You know who has done a lot of questioning of generals? President Trump.
I think it's important to have as diverse of a feed as possible.
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.
You know what takes effort? Being kind. Being patient. Being respectful.
Resist the temptation to subject yourself only to that which re-affirms what you already think.
Facts matter a great deal to me.
I do breakfast first, which is a small bowl of oatmeal and some sort of protein, like hard-boiled eggs. And then I work out - 40 minutes of cardio and maybe some strength training.
I'm trying to spend less time with the phone when the kids are awake in general. I need to get better about that. It's a perennial New Year's resolution.
I'm not a particularly good liar.
