A biography for Tucker Carlsonhasn’t been written yet.
“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 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.”
“Children born with Down Syndrome are not vegetables, nor are their lives demonstrably not worth living.”
“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.”
“You can't fix a problem if you don't have the words to describe it. You can't even think about it clearly.”
“Canadians are so easily wounded.”
“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.”
“I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.”
“There actually have never been many shows as equally balanced as 'Crossfire.'”
“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.”
“The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.”
“The average Liberian, it turns out, does not share the same assumptions as the average black Methodist minister from Chicago.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I only want to debate people who are more powerful than I am.”
“As a rule, the civil-rights establishment is not punctual.”
“Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.”
“I'm not uncomfortable around guns - I've hunted for most of my life - but bringing them on stories is considered taboo.”
“You need, in order to run a country as diverse as ours, a prominently recognized news source.”
“Almost nobody gets rich or erudite overnight.”