Top 70 Tucker Carlson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— Tucker Carlson

2. “That great philosopher anonymous once said, never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.”

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3. “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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4. “Is calling English our national language racist? Are we at that point?”

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5. “Who laughs less than feminists?”

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6. “It is increasingly important to be open-minded.”

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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. “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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9. “I try to tell the truth.”

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10. “It’s hard to be ambitious if you’re content, isn’t it?”

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11. “Honestly, a lot of liberals are foot soldiers in the war on Christmas.”

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12. “To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.”

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13. “England, Australia, Israel, a few staunch, important allies internationally. But we have lost a lot of international support.”

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14. “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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15. “To call me a partisan hack is ludicrous. I am the least partisan person I know.”

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16. “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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17. “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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18. “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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19. “Feminism’s latest victory: the right to get your limbs blown off in war. Congratulations.”

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20. “I’m in the business of value judgments .”

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21. “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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22. “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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23. “I will say, the one thing Mexico does well is punish prisoners. They do. They’re good at that.”

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24. “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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25. “Various experts tried to explain the trend. Was it sexism? Russian propaganda? Hillary’s failure to campaign in the upper Midwest? Almost nobody suggested the obvious: if voters think you hate them for how they were born, they won’t vote for you.”

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26. “Anybody with any ambition at all, or intelligence, has left Canada and is now living in New York.”

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27. “Trump’s election wasn’t about Trump. It was a throbbing middle finger in the face of America’s ruling class. It was a gesture of contempt, a howl of rage, the end result of decades of selfish and unwise decisions made by selfish and unwise leaders. Happy countries don’t elect Donald Trump president. Desperate ones do. In retrospect, the lesson seemed obvious: Ignore voters for long enough and you get Donald Trump.”

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28. “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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29. “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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30. “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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31. “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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32. “I’m a foot soldier in the war on Christmas. And the war on puppies and sunshine.”

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33. “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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34. “I’m for moral blackmail when it comes to putting away child molesters.”

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35. “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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36. “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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37. “To politicize a man’s tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn’t it?”

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38. “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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39. “In politics as in life, nothing is really hidden, only ignored. A candidate’s character is transparent.”

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40. “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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41. “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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42. “I have never been one to look beyond today.”

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43. “Countries can survive war and famines and disease. They cannot survive leaders who despise their own people.”

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44. “I’m a small government conservative.”

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45. “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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46. “In the absence of evidence, superstition. It’s a Middle Ages thing. That’s my theory anyway.”

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47. “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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48. “Angelina Jolie seems like she cries a lot, which puts me off.”

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49. “The best thing about television news is, it’s immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly.”

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50. “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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