It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.
Tucker CarlsonI read Nicholas Kristof columns. I think it was in September [2016] had he this piece look who is endorsing [Donald] Trump, who is behind him. It was the North Korean government, it was Islamic terrorists. It's the Klan. It's the American Nazi party. It seems very uncharitable to me. There was no room for people who are decent but economically beleaguered to maybe want to support him.
Tucker CarlsonBush's America. I wish we had more time. I didn't even vote for him the second time, and I feel like I got to defend him.
Tucker CarlsonI'm not for cutting off hands but I'm more for cutting off hands than I am for molesting children, if that's what it takes to stop it. I think that's fair.
Tucker CarlsonRich people making their houses bigger in order to make their lives happier wind up hurting their own marriages. There's a deep irony here. Do the couples perceive that irony?
Tucker CarlsonSo that all the people who say, you know, "All the media hates America." A lot of the media does hate America but this is a case of, actually, the press doing its best, I think, to do the right by national security. So good for them.
Tucker CarlsonOne is to get out of our echo chambers and sort of follow up people on Twitter and Facebook who do not agree with you. Make sure that you have friends disagree with you profoundly because if you have a friend who voted for somebody else.
Tucker CarlsonIn the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.
Tucker CarlsonWhen you tie [Donald] Trump supporters to those groups [the American Nazi party and the KKK ] that is a slur.
Tucker CarlsonI have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.
Tucker CarlsonBill Clinton is a liar, a perverted kind of a guy anyway, and he is always stroking black folks rather than telling them the truth.
Tucker CarlsonChristianity isn't dead. It still has the capacity to scare people. It still gives people the creeps, which means there is still some power behind the religion, as sort of watered down as it can be.
Tucker CarlsonWhy is this generation looking to aging icons like John Lennon and Bob Dylan for inspiration? Why not raising up their own icons?
Tucker CarlsonAll of a sudden, people are going to decide they want to go micro, everything's smaller.
Tucker CarlsonWe have the - the longest, friendliest border, you know, for the - for the longest time in the history - in recorded history, really, with Canada. And they get to sit on their moral perch, you know, take the moral high ground, say, oh, United States, shame on you about Iraq. They make us look bad internationally. And it's really not fair.
Tucker CarlsonAntiwar protestors actually sabotaged and caused a huge amount of damage to military installations and military property during the war. I'm related to someone who caused some of that damage. I mean, it was real. I mean, there was a reason. I'm not defending it, but I'm saying it was not because they didn't like the politics of the protesters. The protesters were violent in a lot of cases.
Tucker CarlsonI definitely don't want to make Nicholas Kristof defend your employer, no one should have to do that but a sincere question.
Tucker CarlsonThe best thing about television news is, it's immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly.
Tucker CarlsonEarly withdrawal from Iraq would result in unarguably, defeat and humiliation for the United States. There's no question. We would be defeated by definition. We would be humiliated in that defeat. I don't think there's any other way to argue it. Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing is a separate question.
Tucker CarlsonAnybody who sides with Canada internationally in a debate between the U.S. and Canada, say, Belgium, is somebody whose opinion we shouldn't care about in the first place.
Tucker CarlsonI 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 CarlsonThe American Nazi party and the KKK don't really exist in a meaningful way. They may have an office or website. But they are not tens of thousands of members.
Tucker CarlsonLife is short. You die before you think you're going to. Don't waste it in college unless you're doing something real. My view.
Tucker CarlsonIf things do get better in Iraq, I'm saying as someone who thinks the war was a mistake. I'm saying that is cause for us all to have a huge party. It's a big deal if things get better. Because if they don't get better, our country is going to be hurt for generations.
Tucker CarlsonI'm not for drunk driving - however, the states ought to decide. Different states have different penalties for drunk driving because they're states and they get to do that. If people of one state want to be lighter on drunk drivers, they're wrong. That's their business.
Tucker CarlsonI was very disappointed, very disappointed when President [George W.] Bush proclaimed Kwanzaa as a national holiday. Prior to that, Bill Clinton did the same thing.
Tucker CarlsonI 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 CarlsonSo you [Nicholas Kristof] have got this new column out, 12 steps for people who say are traumatized by the [ Donald Trump] election.
Tucker CarlsonYes, older drivers are more likely to injure themselves and others when they get behind the wheel. But if you take that away, that is really the last lifeline a lot of elderly people have.
Tucker CarlsonEuropeans take their soccer pretty seriously. So, when this Turkish TV host had the nerve to criticize the local team, the fans decided to do something about it, something like storm the TV studio during a live show.
Tucker CarlsonI don't think that [thew are bigots] of [Donald Trump] supporters. Those supporters are from my hometown - I understand that suffering. I have written about it repeatedly from my hometown.
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