Jake Tapper

“The Patriots cheat. This is just a fact as established by investigations. They're a cheating team.”

“A lot of the stuff I blog is either stuff I'm reporting anyway for ABC News internally and figure I might as well put it up on the blog. Or it's stuff I'm just interested in, or I read about it, or I hear about it, and I'm just curious.”

“I can be fairly boring.”

“Trump is most fun to draw - just a great mash of caricature-able features, from bouffant to eyebrows and scowl, to the high cheekbones and the regal pride.”

“I'm quite calm when all is well.”

“Print and television journalism are very different, and it's not like one is better than the other.”

“The only politician in my family was my grandfather's grandfather, who was the mayor of Winnipeg from Jan. 1, 1917, until Jan. 5, 1917, because he lost the recount. So he was mayor of Winnipeg for four days.”

“I'm not a member of a political party, and I feel very, very comfortable being independent. Even if I weren't a journalist - if I were doing whatever - I would be an independent.”

“My job is not to be liked. My job is to tell the truth.”

“There's no bias when it comes to facts, and there's no bias when it comes to decency.”

“My dad's a hero in a lot of ways. He was a 1960s and 1970s hippie and a member of the protest crowd.”

“You write a story, you do a TV show, and if people don't like it, well, you're going to do it again tomorrow.”

“I still think of myself as a Philadelphian. I still root for the Philadelphia teams. Other than my house, I still feel most at home in terms of cities when I'm in Philly.”

“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.'”

“Everyone should work in politics to see how horrible it is.”

“In 2009, 2010, the Obama people were the ones mad at me.”

“CNN wants me to tell the news in a way that seems genuine and authentic. They don't want me to be Ron Burgundy.”

“My mom is a nurse; my dad is a pediatrician. They were born in the 1940s, and they were both inspired to fight against injustice, whether it was the injustices of the Vietnam War or Watergate or children in poverty or oppression of African Americans in Philadelphia where I was growing up.”

“As soon as I wake up, I read my email to see what news developed overnight.”

“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.”