42 Tucker Carlson Quotes

Tucker Carlson quotes

1. Maybe in fact it was better to have Saddam in there. Maybe Saddam, as bad as he was-was not the worst we could get. Maybe chaos was the worst we could get. That's the truth.

2. I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.

3. I mean, look, no matter how you feel about Bush, watching him speak is difficult. It's like- it's like watching a drunk man cross an icy street.

4. Grover Norquist is a mean-spirited, humorless, dishonest little creep: an embarrassing anomaly, the leering, drunken uncle everyone else wishes would stay home: [He] is repulsive, granted, but there aren't nearly enough of him to start a purge trial.'

5. 'I think it's a total nightmare and disaster, and I'm ashamed that I went against my own instincts in supporting it (the U.S. war in Iraq). It's something I'll never do again. Never. I got convinced by a friend of mine who's smarter than I am, and I shouldn't have done that. No. I want things to work out, but I'm enraged by it, actually.'

6. There may be countries worth invading, but I don't think we'll be invading them.

7. It's almost impossible to make the case that Bush is a conservative. That may be good; that may be bad.

8. I think [Pat] Buchanan is far too easily and glibly dismissed.

9. The Republican Party of 2005 bears no resemblance to the Republican Party of 1994.

10. Don't take a leak on my shoes and tell me it's raining.

11. STEWART: No, this [CrossFire], it's theater. Like, take this for example. How old are you?

12. 'He has never been believable as a hatemongering brownshirt; his political ethnicity is probably closer to traitor than demagogue. You'd know exactly which side of the desert island to search for Carlson, if he were ever to be stranded on one with the Barnard French faculty and the Tuscaloosa chapter of the Klan - he'd be on the left bank, passionately misquoting Baudelaire.'

13. 'Carlson occupies the same role for conservatives in the media landscape that Colmes does for liberals. Colmes is a pale-faced, paint-by-numbers loser whose only job is to be a believable liberal for people who live in trailers. Carlson is CNN's idea of a conservative. His right-wing ideas come from his changeable, expensive brains instead of his stomach. In the same way that the helpless, ineffectual Colmes is a reassuring image to hardcore conservatives, Carlson puts a soothing face on conservatism for educated East Coast progressives - because even the biggest neo-Marxist wanker from Brown takes one look at Carlson and sees the one man in America he would feel sure of being able to kick the shit out of in a back alley.'

14. 'He is a patsy and a fraud - the kind of public personality totalitarian regimes used to nurture for years in order to execute for a lack of orthodoxy at some opportune historical moment much later on.'

1. In politics, reform never comes before crisis.

2. I'm cheering for America as always. Our interest ought to come first and to the extent that making temporary alliances with other countries serve our interests, I met in favor of that. Making sweeping moral claims comparing people to Hitler advances the ball not one that blinds us to reality.

3. I'm not trying to be mean. You [ Nicholas Kristof] have written about climate change. You're really concerned and you've thought a lot about the suffering of people in other countries. It doesn't seem like you have thought that deeply about the suffering of your fellow Americans. You don't have the solutions say as you do for global warming. And my question is: Isn't it always easier for the elites to identify with abstractions or poor people in other countries and kind of ignore their own country men. I have noticed this. Have you noticed that?

4. 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.

5. Bush'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.

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

7. 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.

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

9. Antiwar 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.

10. We don't have enough folks who grew up in working class rural communities.

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

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

13. Rich 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?

14. The 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.

15. Canada, by others in the global family, is, for some reason, taken seriously. They have about 30 million people. They have some natural resources.

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

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

18. 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.

19. If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people.

20. 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.

21. Since 1978 for the bottom half of the wealth distribution male median wages have actually gone down. And I think that's a crucial reason. If you are a male worker, your median wage since 1979 has gone down.

22. We're a very religious country; the government's secular.

23. I've been in journalism my entire adult life and have often defended it against fellow conservatives who claim the news business is fundamentally corrupt.

24. Republicans can't run for office without the support of business.

25. I'm just not sure I trust the federal government not to trample on civil liberties.

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

27. Who laughs less than feminists?

28. Canada thinks we're married; we don't know it exists. Every time we tell Canada to knock it off, it just feeds the fire.