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Quotes by Tucker Carlson

Al Gore was campaigning on the day of his sister's death, as records of both his interview and his speech that day make clear. But that's hardly the point: Weeks by her side in the hospital would not make up for the cheap way he treated her memory at the Democratic convention last year.
– Tucker Carlson
Al Sharpton is much smarter and funnier than he can seem in a television context. He is a smart politician and political strategist. He can give you a extremely cogent wrap of the primary, for example... He is also a real preacher who actually believes in God, unlike many of the preachers in my denomination, the Episcopalians.
– Tucker Carlson
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
American society changed this week, and almost no one noticed. Republicans in Congress decided to drop a bill that would have kept women off the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.
– Tucker Carlson
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
At a time when the Boy Scouts are being hounded in the worst way by state and local governments around the country over the gay issue... that could have been a campaign issue.
– Tucker Carlson
Avoid boring, conventional people like death is what we are going to do. I'd rather have someone with a facial twitch with something interesting to say than the prettiest former federal prosecutor in all of Los Angeles.
– Tucker Carlson
Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.
– Tucker Carlson
Bush is not a social conservative.
– Tucker Carlson
Bush takes personal pleasure and pride in working with Democrats. I don't know how successful he'll be in working with Congress, but I'm convinced he's going to try hard.
– Tucker Carlson
Bush's brand of forthright tough-guy populism can be appealing, and it has played well in Texas. Yet occasionally there are flashes of meanness visible beneath it.
– Tucker Carlson
Canadians are so easily wounded.
– Tucker Carlson
Clinton will always have a special place of honor in the conservative pantheon of enemies. He has really been a thorn in the side of Republicans for eight years. I think conservatives dislike Bill Clinton in a way that they never disliked Al Gore or with a passion they never felt for Gore.
– Tucker Carlson
How long can you broadcast on radio? Is there a mandatory retirement age? Can you go on forever?
– Tucker Carlson
I am not insecure about being a journalist.
– Tucker Carlson
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
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
I care about John Kerry.
– Tucker Carlson
I don't care what anybody thinks.
– Tucker Carlson
I don't think I'm there to balance out anybody-I'm there to do a good show. People don't want to hear me preach.
– Tucker Carlson
I enjoy what I am doing and hope to continue. As long as it is fun and interesting, I will keep doing it.
– Tucker Carlson
I found the former Vice President Al Gore's speech today so dispiriting, not to say pathetic.
– Tucker Carlson
I have a low opinion of the things Jon said, but I'd like to give him a chance to explain it in an environment where he can talk.
– Tucker Carlson
I have never been one to look beyond today.
– Tucker Carlson
I have never consciously misrepresented my own beliefs. People can see through that. You have to think it through. The show is totally unscripted except for the ins and outs that have to be for technical reasons. So before the show, you have to think it through. And if you do, and you know what you think, you are less likely to blurt out something stupid.
– Tucker Carlson
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
I just thought it was totally unfair to assume Condit killed Chandra Levy. There was never evidence, and now it's obvious that he was completely railroaded, mostly by the press.
– Tucker Carlson
I must say, though, that most of the hate I run across these days seems to be coming from the left.
– Tucker Carlson
I never made it to Liberia. I was in West Africa with Al Sharpton and members of the Nation of Islam. The rebels had captured the airport in Moravia, and our pilot refused to fly us in. So we met with some of the rebel groups in West Africa.
– Tucker Carlson
I never really stopped writing. Before TV all I did was write for magazines, newspapers, etc. It is nearly impossible to be a magazine writer and be in TV because you can't travel. So you either you become a professional bloviator, a columnist, or you write books.
– Tucker Carlson
I paid no attention to the NFL draft.
– Tucker Carlson
I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.
– Tucker Carlson
I think people in your business fear they would forget what they want to say.
– Tucker Carlson
I traveled through South Carolina with Mark Sanford in 2000 when I covered the McCain campaign. He struck me then, as he strikes me now, as one of the most impressive people I've met in politics. I have no idea if he could win the nomination, but I think he'd be a terrific president.
– Tucker Carlson
I try to tell the truth.
– Tucker Carlson
I want to know what are the Pope's plans to liberate the Iraqi people? I didn't hear you talk about that.
– Tucker Carlson
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
I will, in fact, eat my shoes, because I'm a man of my word.
– Tucker Carlson
I wouldn't say I'm happy now. My skepticism is warranted, given what I've seen over the decades.
– Tucker Carlson
I've heard people say it is best to go into an interview ignorant because you learn and are surprised, but you think it is best to learn as much about the person.
– Tucker Carlson
If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people.
– Tucker Carlson
If you are going to commit a felony don't do it in August.
– Tucker Carlson
In general, the news is fair. Everyone blames the media: it sells papers... but it is more complicated than that.
– Tucker Carlson
In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.
– Tucker Carlson
It is increasingly important to be open-minded.
– Tucker Carlson
It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.
– Tucker Carlson
It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?
– Tucker Carlson
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
Monica Lewinsky was a simple story. In many ways the perfect story: interesting cast of characters, sex, important because it was the President... Foreign policy is complicated. The Clinton years were kind of a vacation from history. Now we are dealing with people out there who are attacking us and who are trying to kill us. This is more complicated.
– Tucker Carlson
No one I know has any real idea why voters are behaving the way they are this year-why the polls have been bouncing around, why Gore has been unable to capitalize on the state of the economy, why silly nonevents like kisses and appearances on Oprah seem to be having a real effect on who is going to be the next president.
– Tucker Carlson
No one settles in for a long career in TV! It is just the nature of business-no one is indispensable. There is no one who can't be replaced.
– Tucker Carlson
People say the economy is going well and their lives are fruitful and happy, so then they say they're happy with the president's job performance.
– Tucker Carlson
Politicians are interesting people, most of them are smart and hard-working-I mean, they keep schedules no one else would think of keeping. Some of them live down to the caricature, but most of them are good people and they are charming.
– Tucker Carlson
Some of the nicest people I met with in Africa were members of the Nation of Islam. You have to believe that sincere people, that good people, can hold bad beliefs.
– Tucker Carlson
Studies have shown people listen to TV than watch it.
– Tucker Carlson
The Bush campaign is claiming that they've been working hard and they've had everything in place and they're ready to go and they're going to be able to pull it off. But it's really complicated. Thousands of people are going to get new jobs. The whole city and the whole executive branch are changing.
– Tucker Carlson
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
The day Nancy Hunger died must have been a very busy one for Al Gore, for at some point during the same day, July 11, 1984, he also found time to give a speech before the Kiwanis Club in Knoxville, across the state from his sister's deathbed. He also squeezed in an interview with a wire-service reporter. Whether he managed to do these things before or after his sister's last words to him is not clear, since Gore didn't mention her in the UPI interview he gave.
– Tucker Carlson
The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.
– Tucker Carlson
The political world is still reeling tonight from yesterday's nauseating display in Minnesota, where a memorial service for the late Senator Paul Wellstone was hijacked by partisan zealots and turned into a political rally. Republican friends of Senator Wellstone were booed and shouted down as they tried to speak.
– Tucker Carlson
The traditional anti-fun feminist point of view is that of course men are bad, and they make women do bad things.
– Tucker Carlson
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
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
There is no five-second delay on Crossfire-if you say it, people will hear it. Things can get heated; the potential is there to overstate your position. It is vital to not misrepresent what you actually believe.
– Tucker Carlson
There's no way to spin it: Allowing women to get shot to death, or blown up, or mutilated and disfigured in war-particularly in a voluntary war-is horrible. It's unnecessary. It's barbaric.
– Tucker Carlson
This assumption is mostly true-most people accused of a crime are criminals-but not always. I was accused of crime by someone I never met, in a city I had never been to... It was on its way to the prosecutor. Only thanks to divine providence and an amazing lawyer was I able to deal with it.
– Tucker Carlson
To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.
– Tucker Carlson
To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?
– Tucker Carlson
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
Virtually no one favors returning to the draft. Bush is against it. Congress is against it. The Pentagon is completely against it. It is not happening now or anywhere in the near future. Again, John Kerry knows this very well, and yet he pretends otherwise in order to scare college students into voting for him. And they probably will vote for him, but it's still pretty dishonorable.
– Tucker Carlson
Voters are weird. There are no obvious patterns in this race. So if you're a reporter and it's your job to find obvious patterns, at some point you just start looking for signs that might indicate what's going to happen next. Because you don't have anything better to go on.
– Tucker Carlson
We're here to love you, not confront you.
– Tucker Carlson
We're talking to Jon Stewart, who was just lecturing us on our moral inferiority. Jon, you're bumming us out.
– Tucker Carlson
What does John Kerry think about Iraq? Who knows. Who cares.
– Tucker Carlson
What's this guy's problem? Pretty obvious, isn't it? Bush is acting like a particularly conflicted teenager. Haughty, angry, mean, competitive, iconoclastic, arrogant, argumentative, mocking, paranoid, uncaring, thoughtless, profane-it's all there on the surface at one time or the other during a series of interviews and observations this spring.
– Tucker Carlson
Who laughs less than feminists?
– Tucker Carlson
You don't watch Crossfire to find out what happened but to makes sense of what happened. You hope that you take the biggest story of the day and help people understand what it means.
– Tucker Carlson
You will admit that at least 40 percent of any vote in a Democratic race is humorless feminists.
– Tucker Carlson