Tucker Carlson Quotes

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.

- Tucker Carlson

Love, Reason, Rant, Bin

The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.

- Tucker Carlson

George W. Bush, Bush, Bipartisanship

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.

- Tucker Carlson

Going, Sure, Abroad, Posted

Nobody wants to be seen with a bigot.

- Tucker Carlson

Nobody, Wants, Seen, Bigot

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.'

- Tucker Carlson

Explain, Very, Issue, Hosts

Limbaugh hosts a radio show. His job is to shock people.

- Tucker Carlson

Shock, Show, His, Hosts

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.

- Tucker Carlson

Good, Stupid, Your, Lacking

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.

- Tucker Carlson

More, Agency, Investigations, FBI

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.

- Tucker Carlson

Worse, Expensive, About, Chatter

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.

- Tucker Carlson

Politics, Becoming, Code, Progressive

There's no law of nature that says America must remain the most powerful country in the world.

- Tucker Carlson

Nature, Law, Country, No Law

It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.

- Tucker Carlson

Ideas, Think, Your, Complacent

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.

- Tucker Carlson

Border, Trump, Amount, Lax

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.

- Tucker Carlson

Doing, Kindergarten, CNN, Last Night

I'd rather have dinner with Don King than with Mark Furhman. But then, I'm American. I have no perspective.

- Tucker Carlson

King, American, Rather, None

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.

- Tucker Carlson

Over, Been, Weeks, Two Weeks

When it comes to scaring the bourgeoisie into showing up at the polls, nothing works better than negative advertising.

- Tucker Carlson

Nothing, Works, Scaring, Bourgeoisie

Animals shouldn't be mistreated.

- Tucker Carlson

Animals, Mistreated

I can't wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He's a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it.

- Tucker Carlson

Work, Great, Wait, Rick

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.

- Tucker Carlson

News, Corrupt, Been, Claim

People say you become more cynical as you get older. That hasn't been my experience.

- Tucker Carlson

Say, More, Been, Cynical

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.

- Tucker Carlson

Maybe, I Think, Instance, Steadily

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.

- Tucker Carlson

Less, Reporters, Bothers, Self-Awareness

People often refer to Dubai as the Hong Kong of the Gulf, but it's really more like Vegas.

- Tucker Carlson

Vegas, More, Like, Gulf

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.

- Tucker Carlson

Country, Like, Third World, Borderline

People like entitlements. That's why we spend so much on them.

- Tucker Carlson

Why, Like, Spend, Entitlement

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.

- Tucker Carlson

Think, New, Your, Freelance

Intelligence is not a moral category.

- Tucker Carlson

Intelligence, Moral, Category

People with conservative temperaments don't become fighter pilots or presidential candidates - they're all that way to some extent.

- Tucker Carlson

Conservative, Some, Extent, Presidential

I'm not much of an economic conservative, and I'm not conservative at all on foreign policy.

- Tucker Carlson

Conservative, Much, Economic

My first experience on public radio still ranks among the most embarrassing episodes of my relatively short life.

- Tucker Carlson

Still, Public Radio, Episodes

If you want another world war, run up unsustainable debts.

- Tucker Carlson

World, Want, Debts, Unsustainable

Get-educated-quick schemes are usually about as sound as subprime mortgage-backed securities: Enticing but basically fraudulent.

- Tucker Carlson

Sound, About, Basically, Enticing

Senator McConnell is by all accounts a decent person. He's pretty conservative, too.

- Tucker Carlson

Pretty, Senator, Too, Accounts

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.

- Tucker Carlson

Woman, Prepare, Some, Psychologically

I'm Christian. I've made mistakes. I believe fervently in second chances.

- Tucker Carlson

Chances, Second Chances, Fervently

In the Nation of Islam, Akbar Muhammad is a big deal.

- Tucker Carlson

Big, Islam, Deal, Muhammad

He'll likely be remembered as a political figure, but I don't recall Andrew Breitbart ever mentioning electoral politics. It bored him.

- Tucker Carlson

Politics, Likely, Figure, Andrew

You can look different but have the same values. That's not diversity; it's conformity.

- Tucker Carlson

Diversity, Values, Same, Conformity

People tend to cherish and take care of the things they pay for and therefore own, countries included. The opposite is also true. When was the last time you changed the oil in a rental car?

- Tucker Carlson

Own, Cherish, Last, Changed

Sharpton is a smart guy. In some ways, he's a good guy. But a moral arbiter? Let's not get carried away.

- Tucker Carlson

Some, Away, Carried, Arbiter

Pat Buchanan has written and said a number of things that are widely understood to be hostile to Jews and to Israel.

- Tucker Carlson

Number, Pat, Hostile, Understood

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.

- Tucker Carlson

Will, Goes, Other, Weapons

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.

- Tucker Carlson

Voice, Think, I Think, Lunatics

Children born with Down Syndrome are not vegetables, nor are their lives demonstrably not worth living.

- Tucker Carlson

Living, Born, Lives, Syndrome

It is one of the triumphs of modern society that the life of the average person with Down Syndrome has become strikingly normal.

- Tucker Carlson

Average, Normal, Triumphs, Syndrome

Children with Down Syndrome are not monsters, but uncommonly gentle human beings who can and do lead full lives.

- Tucker Carlson

Down, Monsters, Lives, Syndrome

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.

- Tucker Carlson

Other, Over, Very, Officials

There's almost nothing that upsets Americans more than the idea that somewhere, somehow, somebody is getting his feelings hurt.

- Tucker Carlson

More, Idea, Almost, Feelings

You need, in order to run a country as diverse as ours, a prominently recognized news source.

- Tucker Carlson

News, Country, Ours, Diverse

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.

- Tucker Carlson

History, Economy, Dominant, Chaotic

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.

- Tucker Carlson

Reason, Some, Always, Dependent

Canadians are so easily wounded.

- Tucker Carlson

Wounded, Easily, Canadians

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.

- Tucker Carlson

Doing, Some, Successfully, Fluent

Seldom has a politician left public office with more self-generated fanfare than Sen. William S. Cohen.

- Tucker Carlson

Office, Politician, More, Fanfare

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.

- Tucker Carlson

Reaction, Trump, Part, Ought

In Washington, no one believes anything unless it comes from 'The New Yorker,' 'New York Times' editorial page, or 'The Washington Post.'

- Tucker Carlson

New, Editorial, New Yorker, New York Times

Boys and girls are not the same.

- Tucker Carlson

Same, Boys And Girls

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.

- Tucker Carlson

Some, Very, Dangers, Muddy

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.

- Tucker Carlson

Both Sides, Been, Awful Lot, Good Things

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.

- Tucker Carlson

Against, Explain, Made, In The End

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.

- Tucker Carlson

Some, Making, Based, Generalization

One area of liberal phenomenon I support is female bi-sexuality.

- Tucker Carlson

Area, Phenomenon, Female, One Area

The second you feel a political imperative, it destroys your art.

- Tucker Carlson

Art, Political, Feel, Imperative

Who laughs less than feminists?

- Tucker Carlson

Less, Laughs, Than, Feminists

Studies have shown people listen to TV than watch it.

- Tucker Carlson

Watch, TV, Shown, Studies

Although virtually all Republicans campaign on fiscal restraint, how many actually care about it deeply?

- Tucker Carlson

Republicans, Virtually, Many, Restraint

To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?

- Tucker Carlson

Death, Low, About, Tragic

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.

- Tucker Carlson

Love, Considers, Based, Scripture

The average Liberian, it turns out, does not share the same assumptions as the average black Methodist minister from Chicago.

- Tucker Carlson

Black, Average, Minister, Methodist

The public understands that the government is broke, but many still don't want to cut programs they enjoy or depend on.

- Tucker Carlson

Government, Broke, Still, Understands

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

- Tucker Carlson

Middle, Absence, Evidence, Middle Ages

Like everyone else, rich people respond to incentives.

- Tucker Carlson

Incentives, Everyone Else, Respond

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.

- Tucker Carlson

Think, Some, Over, Gore

I like Sarah Palin.

- Tucker Carlson

Like, Palin, Sarah, None

I am not insecure about being a journalist.

- Tucker Carlson

I Am, Journalist, About, Insecure

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

- Tucker Carlson

Important, Increasingly, Open-Minded

It's normal for people, especially politicians, to expect rewards in return for favors.

- Tucker Carlson

Normal, Favors, Expect, Rewards

I'm not uncomfortable around guns - I've hunted for most of my life - but bringing them on stories is considered taboo.

- Tucker Carlson

My Life, Guns, Stories, Taboo

I feel like I've known Hunter S. Thompson for most of my life. I first encountered him in 1981, when I was 12.

- Tucker Carlson

My Life, Feel, Like, Encountered

To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.

- Tucker Carlson

Hair, Could, Cut, Feminist

If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people.

- Tucker Carlson

Still, His, Hussein, Saddam

You can learn a lot about Pat Buchanan by talking to his campaign staff, particularly the ones who have quit or been fired.

- Tucker Carlson

Fired, Been, Pat, Campaign

I like bow ties, and I certainly spent a lot of time defending them.

- Tucker Carlson

Like, Lot, Certainly, Bow

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.

- Tucker Carlson

Love, Like, Eager, To Love

I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.

- Tucker Carlson

Think, I Think, Though, Loathsome

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.

- Tucker Carlson

New Year's, Year, Feel, Vast

There's nothing scarier than a reckless prosecutor.

- Tucker Carlson

Nothing, Reckless, Than, Prosecutor

You don't criticize your employer.

- Tucker Carlson

You, Criticize, Your, Employer

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.

- Tucker Carlson

Very, TV, Frustrated, Parts

If you think your average Trump voter in Ohio hates Washington, you should see what Washington thinks about the Trump voter in Ohio.

- Tucker Carlson

Think, Average, Trump, Ohio

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.

- Tucker Carlson

Politics, Living, No Time, Paid

I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.

- Tucker Carlson

Political, Say, No Time, Paid

I watched Bill O'Reilly for years.

- Tucker Carlson

Years, Bill, Watched

I don't care what anybody thinks.

- Tucker Carlson

Care, Anybody, Thinks

Pat Buchanan likes to fight. But only on TV.

- Tucker Carlson

Only, Pat, TV, Likes

Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.

- Tucker Carlson

Interesting, Most, Billy, Washington

Trump could teach Republicans in Washington a lot if only they stopped posturing long enough to watch carefully.

- Tucker Carlson

Trump, Republicans, Stopped, Washington

By the time I got to college, mind expansion had lost its appeal.

- Tucker Carlson

College, Mind, By The Time, Expansion

There actually have never been many shows as equally balanced as 'Crossfire.'

- Tucker Carlson

Never, Been, Actually, Balanced

You can't fix a problem if you don't have the words to describe it. You can't even think about it clearly.

- Tucker Carlson

Problem, Think, Even, Fix

Most of the time, you can beat a woman in an argument.

- Tucker Carlson

Woman, Argument, Most, Beat

Under no circumstances am I going to criticize my family in public.

- Tucker Carlson

Circumstances, Going, Public, Criticize

The unhappy truth is, learning is hard.

- Tucker Carlson

Learning, Truth, Unhappy, Truth Is

In politics, reform never comes before crisis.

- Tucker Carlson

Politics, Never, Crisis, Reform

It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?

- Tucker Carlson

Content, You, Hard, Ambitious

Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already.

- Tucker Carlson

More, About, Am, Too Much

You want people with different life experiences as a backstop against bad decision.

- Tucker Carlson

Decision, Bad, Against, Experiences

All standards are double standards.

- Tucker Carlson

Double, Standards

Almost nobody gets rich or erudite overnight.

- Tucker Carlson

Nobody, Overnight, Almost, Rich

I only want to debate people who are more powerful than I am.

- Tucker Carlson

I Am, Debate, More, Powerful

As a rule, the civil-rights establishment is not punctual.

- Tucker Carlson

Establishment, Punctual, Rule

I have never been one to look beyond today.

- Tucker Carlson

Today, Never, Been, Beyond

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