Jake Tapper

“I have very vivid memories of my parents talking about Nixon, my mom watching Watergate on the black-and-white set in the living room. The mayor at the time in Philadelphia was a guy named Frank Rizzo - a Democrat, a real bully, a racist.”

“I lost a great uncle in World War II who was with the Royal Canadian Air Force.”

“I think there is room for improvement for all of the media, and that certainly, and especially, includes me.”

“My back isn't great.”

“President Obama was not friendly to the press, but the press was very friendly to President Obama.”

“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.”

“My mom is from Canada. Both my grandparents were from Canada.”

“My mom is a hero in a lot of ways because she's the most empathetic and kind person I've ever met.”

“It's tough for me to draw myself - usually way too self-critical.”

“I generally feel that the solution to speech that people find offensive is more speech. You should talk about it, discuss it.”

“We've gone through many different permutations of coffee-making, from grinding our own beans to the regular drip to an iced coffee maker.”

“CNN is in the business of sussing out what is true and what is false.”

“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!”

“I certainly don't think that it's the job of any journalist to make the presidency work.”

“People mess up. They say things when their guard is down.”

“Exercise has its hazards. Runners are sidelined by shinsplints, freestylists by swimmer's ear, and who hasn't heard of tennis elbow? But the fitness buff of the '90s has a far greater worry. StairMaster Butt.”

“Probably like a lot of people, my personal politics are all over the map.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Everybody should work in their nation's capitol and see how politics actually work because it was the most eye opening experience of my life.”