Top 87 Tucker Carlson Quotes
#1. What really destroyed Tucker Carlson, respected magazine journalist, was TV. TV exposed him as glib, smug, and not nearly as clever as he thought he was.
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#2. In many ways, Tucker Carlson's a better symbol of the pathetic state of what passes for conservative journalism than even Glenn Beck or the late Andrew Breitbart, to name two of his contemporaries with a much larger following.
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#3. But Michael Vick killed dogs, and he did in a heartless and cruel way. And I think, personally, he should've been executed for that. He wasn't, but the idea that the President of the United States would be getting behind someone who murdered dogs?
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#5. England, Australia, Israel, a few staunch, important allies internationally. But we have lost a lot of international support.
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#6. I can't wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He's a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it.
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#7. I don't think all people yearn for freedom, actually. I think they yearn for stability.
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#8. Europeans 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.
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#9. 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.
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#10. Life 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.
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#11. 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.
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#12. Canada has little pictures of us in its bedroom, right? Canada spends all of its time thinking about the United States, obsessing over the United States. It's unrequited love between Canada and the United States.
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#15. It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.
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#16. Feminism's latest victory: the right to get your limbs blown off in war. Congratulations.
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#17. 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.
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#18. To call me a partisan hack is ludicrous. I am the least partisan person I know.
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#20. 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.
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#21. Anybody with any ambition at all, or intelligence, has left Canada and is now living in New York.
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#23. 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.
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#24. Canada, by others in the global family, is, for some reason, taken seriously. They have about 30 million people. They have some natural resources.
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#26. The war on Christmas. This is the most ridiculous right wing talking point I have ever lived through.The idea is that liberals want to get rid of Christmas.
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#27. I'm such a sap for democracy and politics that I get weepy when I see anybody voting.
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#28. 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.
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#29. Nobody, at least sitting in my seat , is defending drunk driving. I am not for drunk driving.
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#30. 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.
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#31. I'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.
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#32. Anybody 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.
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#33. The Republican Party of 2005 bears no resemblance to the Republican Party of 1994.
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#34. 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.
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#35. Republicans can't run for office without the support of business.
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#36. All of a sudden, people are going to decide they want to go micro, everything's smaller.
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#37. That great philosopher anonymous once said, never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.
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#38. Christianity 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.
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#40. I'm for moral blackmail when it comes to putting away child molesters.
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#41. Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.
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#42. I will say, the one thing Mexico does well is punish prisoners. They do. They're good at that.
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#43. 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.
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#44. 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.
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#45. I 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.
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#46. We're a very religious country; the government's secular.
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#47. Yes, 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.
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#48. 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.
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#50. Television and the way we watch is going to change dramatically in the next year.
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#51. I think [Pat] Buchanan is far too easily and glibly dismissed.
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#52. 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.
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#53. Bill Clinton is a liar, a perverted kind of a guy anyway, and he is always stroking black folks rather than telling them the truth.
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#54. The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.
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#55. In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.
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#56. I'm a foot soldier in the war on Christmas. And the war on puppies and sunshine.
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#57. Is calling English our national language racist? Are we at that point?
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#58. It's almost impossible to make the case that Bush is a conservative. That may be good; that may be bad.
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#59. The disgraceful and shameful construction of walls, the increasing enforcement of security systems and increasing violation of human rights and labor rights will not protect the economy of the United States.
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#60. Angelina Jolie seems like she cries a lot, which puts me off.
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#61. 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.
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#62. Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already.
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#63. To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?
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#64. The best thing about television news is, it's immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly.
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#65. To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.
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#66. So 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.
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#68. It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?
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#69. 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.
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#70. This is a major step forward in achieving our objective, which is an ally having a democratic Iraq, a country able to sustain itself and defend itself, a country that will be an ally in the war on terror and a country which will set such a powerful example to others in the region.
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#71. Canadians are always asking the questions the rest of us are afraid to ask.
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#72. Everybody knows that only creeps put cameras in the bathroom.
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#74. 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.
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#75. I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.
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#76. Studies have shown people listen to TV than watch it.
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#77. I very much like "Canada, the adults are talking" stance.
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#78. I think Canadians, they may be offended that I pointed out that they're stalking us. But at least we're paying attention.
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#79. Honestly, a lot of liberals are foot soldiers in the war on Christmas.
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#80. 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.
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#81. Why is this generation looking to aging icons like John Lennon and Bob Dylan for inspiration? Why not raising up their own icons?
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#82. I'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.
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#83. Every single comedian in Canada is now living in the United States.
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#84. If 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.
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#85. I trust the federal government not to trample on civil liberties.
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#86. 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?
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#87. If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people.
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