Top 206 Quotes & Sayings by Tucker Carlson - Page 2

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I like Sarah Palin.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I watched Bill O'Reilly for years.

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

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.

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.

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

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.'

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

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

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

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

Nobody wants to be seen with a bigot.

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

The unhappy truth is, learning is hard.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Animals shouldn't be mistreated.

All standards are double standards.

In politics, reform never comes before crisis.

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

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.

Pat Buchanan likes to fight. But only on TV.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Intelligence is not a moral category.

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

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

That great philosopher anonymous once said, never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

The modern tribalism of the left demands that each person choose a group and then agree with everything that group agrees with. And anybody who leaves that group is stoned to death.

Feminism's latest victory: the right to get your limbs blown off in war. Congratulations.

I don't think all people yearn for freedom, actually. I think they yearn for stability.

Canada is a sweet country. It is like your retarded cousin you see at Thanksgiving and sort of pat him on the head. You know, he's nice, but you don't take him seriously. That is Canada.