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Jake Tapper QUOTES

Jake Tapper QUOTES

1 " No president likes leaks, but it’s worth noting candidate Trump’s path to power was tread on a road of leaks. He didn’t have a problem with leaks then. It’s not a moral position if you only hold it when it applies to you. "

― Jake Tapper

2 " I am sure because I am confident in the idea of the United States of America. I believe that the combination of checks and balances and a free press and our democratically elected representatives will expose charlatans. I believe in the good sense of the American people, and I know in my soul that truth will win out. "

― Jake Tapper , The Hellfire Club

3 " The human soul isn't sold once but rather slowly and methodically and piece by piece. "

― Jake Tapper , The Hellfire Club

4 " If there’s a world with ghosts, shouldn’t we be constantly walking through hundreds of apparitions of just regular old people? "

― Jake Tapper , The Hellfire Club

5 " As Kolenda saw it, none of what he was doing had anything to do with being warmhearted. In his opinion, counterinsurgency was a pretty damned cold-blooded strategy, all about being out there with specific goals—establishing stability and defeating the insurgency—and intelligently using the full range of available leverage, from cash, clean water, and education for local children to bullets, when appropriate, to get the desired results. There was an element of manipulation involved. Sure, he wanted the Afghans to have better lives—how could anyone not, after seeing that kind of impoverishment? But there was also something transactional about American promises of clean water, construction jobs, and a brighter future for Afghan kids. This wasn’t charity; the bottom line was, these offers were made to save American lives and help destroy anyone who hoped to hurt ISAF troops. Kolenda could never understand why some folks viewed the carrots as being somehow inferior to the sticks. "

― Jake Tapper , The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor

6 " What his time in Afghanistan was teaching him was that there needed to be better reasons, stronger threats to national security, before the United States deployed its sons and daughters. The abstract threat of terror was not enough, "

― Jake Tapper , The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor

7 " Army studies indicate that if a wounded soldier arrives alive at a combat support hospital where surgeons and nurses can treat him, the chances of his surviving are extremely high—greater than 90 percent. “Surviving,” of course, doesn’t necessarily entail keeping arms or legs or retaining the ability to function independently back home. The leading cause of preventable death on the battlefield is bleeding. Having a leg blown off by an IED, for instance, can be fatal if quick steps are not taken to control the blood loss. Even deadlier is internal bleeding, a problem for which medics generally don’t have a good answer. A soldier who is bleeding internally needs to be evacuated and delivered to a surgeon immediately if he is to have any hope of survival. The second-leading cause of preventable death is something called tension pneumothorax. If a bullet punctures a soldier’s lung, air can leak from that hole into the “pleural space,” or cavity outside the lungs. That air can build up and eventually interfere with the functioning of the heart. This can be a relatively simple problem to correct: a medic can simply stick a big needle in the soldier’s chest to relieve the pressure in the pleural space. "

― Jake Tapper , The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor

8 " Many troops were far more proficient in PowerPoint than they were with firearms, so "

― Jake Tapper , The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor

9 " She’d always found animals easier to understand than humans; they were so refreshingly straightforward and real. "

― Jake Tapper , The Devil May Dance

10 " the disquieting hour before dawn when it feels as if no one else is alive. "

― Jake Tapper , The Hellfire Club

11 " When our wars are determined not by the threat of Nazism or racism or Communism but by the influence on policy-makers of those those who stand to reap financial benefits from the use of these arms - that, Charlie, is my biggest fear for this country. "

― Jake Tapper , The Hellfire Club

12 " could respond, they heard a "

― Jake Tapper , The Hellfire Club

13 " Dusk came earlier in the valley than in places outside the mountains’ muscular shadows. "

― Jake Tapper , The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor

14 " You go through more bestsellers than a McCarthy bonfire. "

― Jake Tapper , The Hellfire Club

15 " When a rat pokes his head up from the sewer, he needs to be hit on the head with a shovel immediately. You cannot just sit back and think, Well, it’s just one rat or That’s somebody else’s problem. Because it’s never just one rat, and it eventually becomes your problem. "

― Jake Tapper , The Hellfire Club

16 " Snyder had been running his twelve-man Special Forces team out of Naray since January. He conducted his operations with a palpable intensity, haunted by the ghosts of nineteen Americans—fellow special-operations troops—who’d been killed before he even arrived. "

― Jake Tapper , The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor

17 " I may be doing nothing to stop the war in Korea, or nothing to balance the budget, or nothing to solve anything, but there'll be a lot of name-calling, there'll be all sorts of headlines!' Lodge pledged. 'The trivial will reach a new place in American politics and believe me: when you consider the place it has had in previous administrations, that is no idle boast! "

― Jake Tapper , The Hellfire Club

18 " Seeing Reds under every park bench, thinking people who merely want a more just and equitable society are trying to undermine America. People are fighting for a better world. They see the United States inflicting pain and suffering on places like Cuba and Puerto Rico and Korea. They see our ideals falling by the wayside as the big corporations take over our politics and wrest control of our foreign policy. Americans who want racial justice and harmony aren't to be ostracized. We're to be listened to. "

― Jake Tapper , The Hellfire Club

19 " When a rat pokes his head up from the sewer, he needs to be hit on the head with a shovel immediately. You cannot just sit back and think, 'Well, it's just one rat' or 'That's somebody else's problem.' Because it's never just one rat, and it eventually becomes your problem. "

― Jake Tapper , The Hellfire Club

20 " Declaration of Conscience,” delivered on the Senate floor, derided McCarthy’s “Four Horsemen of Calumny—Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear.” She and Kefauver were thus allies against "

― Jake Tapper , The Hellfire Club