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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.
Bush is not a social conservative.
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.
Canadians are so easily wounded.
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.
How long can you broadcast on radio? Is there a mandatory retirement age? Can you go on forever?
I am not insecure about being a journalist.
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.
I can't wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He's a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it.
I don't care what anybody thinks.
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.
I enjoy what I am doing and hope to continue. As long as it is fun and interesting, I will keep doing it.
I found the former Vice President Al Gore's speech today so dispiriting, not to say pathetic.
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.
I have never been one to look beyond today.
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.
I must say, though, that most of the hate I run across these days seems to be coming from the left.
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.
I paid no attention to the NFL draft.
I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.
I think people in your business fear they would forget what they want to say.
I try to tell the truth.
I want to know what are the Pope's plans to liberate the Iraqi people? I didn't hear you talk about that.
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.
I will, in fact, eat my shoes, because I'm a man of my word.
I wouldn't say I'm happy now. My skepticism is warranted, given what I've seen over the decades.
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.
If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people.
If you are going to commit a felony don't do it in August.
In general, the news is fair. Everyone blames the media: it sells papers... but it is more complicated than that.
In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.
It is increasingly important to be open-minded.
It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.
It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?
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.
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.
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.
Studies have shown people listen to TV than watch it.
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.
The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.
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.
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.
To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.
To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?
Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already.
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.
We're here to love you, not confront you.
We're talking to Jon Stewart, who was just lecturing us on our moral inferiority. Jon, you're bumming us out.
What does John Kerry think about Iraq? Who knows. Who cares.
Who laughs less than feminists?
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.
You will admit that at least 40 percent of any vote in a Democratic race is humorless feminists.
Tucker Carlson was a member of the editorial staff of Policy Review magazine.
Tucker Carlson's father is Richard W. Carlson, who was president and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting from 1992 to 1997.
Tucker Carlson has four children.
Tucker Carlson resides near Washington, D.C.
Tucker Carlson gives dozens of speeches each year.
Tucker Carlson was a contributor for Forbes.
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Tucker was a staff writer at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little Rock.
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