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Tucker Carlson

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“Joe Biden is the president of the United States, not a high school debate coach. He controls the largest military and law enforcement agencies in the world. He has now declared war, and we have a right to know, specifically and precisely, who exactly he has declared war on. Innocent people could be hurt in this war. They usually are. There could be collateral damage in this war, and the casualties will be Americans.”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Questioning what Joe Biden meant when he declared a nationwide war on 'white supremacy' and 'domestic terrorism' in his inaugural address on January 20, 2021; ;
“Beginning on Memorial Day, BLM and their sponsors in corporate America completely changed this country. They changed this country more in 5 months than it had changed in the previous 50 years. How'd they do that? They used the sad death of a man called George Floyd to upend our society. Months later we learned the story they told us about George Floyd's death was an utter lie. There was no physical evidence that George Floyd was murdered by a cop. The autopsy showed that George Floyd almost certainly died of a drug overdose. Fentanyl.”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Claiming George Floyd died of fentanyl and not of the asphyxiation caused by Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin pressing his knee on his neck on February 10, 2021; ;
“Equality is what allowed Andrew Jackson to rise from a childhood of bitter poverty in the Carolina woods and make it all the way to the White House. Andrew Jackson was tough, smart and energetic. He lived a remarkable life, and America rewarded him for it. That's equality. Equity is the opposite. Equity is what allowed Kamala Harris, the privileged child of two PhDs, to stay privileged and become one of the most powerful people on the planet, despite having achieved nothing impressive or worthwhile over the span of 56 years.”
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“Now, I know that the left and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term "replacement," if you suggest that the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate, the voters now casting ballots, with new people, more obedient voters from the Third World. But they become hysterical because that's what's happening, actually.”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tucker Carlson Tonight, Every time they import a new voter they dilute citizens power", April 9, 2021
“Magazine journalism is worth remembering. They're mostly gone now, but for a long time magazines played a significant role in the life of the country. If you wanted to understand what the rest of the world was like, you read magazines.”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 21 August 2021 in introduction of The Long Slide: Thirty Years in American Journalism seen on his site
“Only 46 members of the entire U.S. military have died from the coronavirus over the last year and a half. Suicides, by contrast, kill many, many times more”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Military’s COVID Vaccine Mandate Is Sending Tucker Carlson Into Overdrive (SEPTEMBER 23, 2021)
“Non-white DNA is the quote "source of our strength" ... imagine saying that! This is the language eugenics, it's horrifying. But there's a reason Biden said it. In political terms this policy is called "the great replacement", the replacement of legacy Americans with more obedient people from faraway countries. They brag about it all the time, but if you dare to say it's happening, they'll scream at you with maximum hysteria. And here you have Joe Biden confirming his motive on tape with a smile on his face.”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 22 September 2021 regarding Joe Biden's 17 February 2015 quotes
“The Ideologues are in control, and that is a huge problem for the rest of us. It’s a problem because ideologues have no interest in the lives of actual human beings. Ideologues care only about their theories, about the bright new future they are building. Humans are just speed bumps on the way to utopia.”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tucker Carlson Tonight“This is Joe Biden’s main problem” (Nov. 8, 2021)
“It may be worth asking yourself, since it is getting pretty serious, what is this really about? Why do I hate Putin so much? [...] Has Putin ever called me a racist? Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him?”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tucker Carlson Tonight (February 22, 2022) cited in "Tucker Carlson, downplaying Russia-Ukraine conflict, urges Americans to ask, 'Why do I hate Putin?'" The Washington Post (February 23, 2022)
“Sexualizing children, mutilating their genitals, do you get off on it?”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (19 September 2022)
“In general people's kooky theories don't bother me. You can be a flat earther, a circumcision activist, you can be whatever you want to be. But if you try and take over my power grid on the basis of your ridiculous theories, then we have a right to fight back, no?”
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Recorded in: (29 September 2022)
“There is no scientific justification for sexually mutilating kids. They are not doing it for a scientifically defensible reason. They are doing it because they believe in a very specific religious ideology.”
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Recorded in: on Tucker Carlson Tonight in "Stop Sexualizing Kids" monologue (21 November 2022)
“[South Africa is] a country we never talk about because no one wants to admit what’s happened there over the past 29 years.”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tucker Carlson Tonight (January 16, 2023), as quoted in "Tucker Carlson sparks fresh outrage by mourning the end of apartheid in South Africa" The Independent (18 January 2023)
“Probably not the best time to give up your AR-15.”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tucker Carlson Tonight (March 30, 2023), cited in ["Tucker Carlson Teases an Insurrection over Trump" The New Republic (March 31, 2023)
“Who organised those Black Lives Matter riots three years ago? No one's gotten to the bottom of that. What exactly happened on 9/11? Well, it's still classified.”
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Recorded in: From the first edition of Tucker on Twitter (June 6, 2023), cited in "Tucker Carlson calls Ukraine’s Jewish leader 'rat-like' as he launches new Twitter show with pro-Kremlin rant" The Independent (London, June 6, 2023)
“[On the claims of David Grusch and the supposed cover-up by the US government of recovered UFOs and (alleged) absence of reports from some major media outlets] That's what the former intel officer revealed, and it was clear he was telling the truth [...] In other words, UFOs are actually real, and apparently so is extraterrestrial life. Now, in a normal country, this news would qualify as a bombshell the story of the millennium. But in our country, it doesn't.”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From the first edition of Tucker on Twitter (June 6, 2023), cited in "Watch: Tucker Carlson spouts conspiracy theories about 9/11, Ukraine and UFOs in new show" The Telegraph (London, June 7, 2023)
“Of course, Joe Biden is not a wannabe dictator! Just because he's trying to put the other candidate in prison for the rest of his life for a crime he himself committed, doesn't mean he has a totalitarian impulse, c'mon, that's absurd! It takes a lot more than jailing your political rivals to earn the title ‘wannabe dictator’!”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ep.4 – Wannabe Dictator (June 15, 2023)
“[Referring to Ben Shapiro, an American conservative commentator] They don’t care about the country at all, [...] but I do … because I'm from here, my family's been here hundreds of years, I plan to stay here. Like, I'm shocked by how little they care about the country, including the person you mentioned. And I can't imagine how someone like that could get an audience of people who claim to care about America, because he doesn't, obviously.”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the Breaking Points podcast (December 2023), as cited in "The Anti-Semitic Revolution on the American Right", The Atlantic (September 23, 2024)
“If you're powerful and wise, you seek to bring stability and order and predictability and peace. That's what a father does in his family. That's what a good CEO does in a company. It's what a good general does.”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ep 210 | Tucker Carlson Takes On Critics of His Interview with Putin | The Glenn Beck Podcast" on The Glenn Beck Program, found on DeepCast (21 February 2024)
“The idea that the only things that are real are the things that we can see or measure in a lab, that's insane. That's just dumb.”
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Recorded in: #414 - Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom" on Lex Fridman Podcast, found on DeepCast (27 February 2024)
“What [FOX News] are doing is what they always do, which is just turning up the propaganda hose to full blast and just trying to knock elderly Fox viewers off their feet and make them subject to more wars. .. Who are the warmongers? They would include anyone who's calling Donald Trump today to demand air strikes and other direct US military involvement in a war with Iran. On that list: Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Rupert Murdoch, Ike Perlmutter and Miriam Adelson. At some point they will all have to answer for this, but you should know their names now.”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Former Fox News Favorite Declares Network a 'Propaganda Hose' Aimed at Manipulating 'Elderly' Viewers" The Latin Times (June 17, 2025)
“I was shocked and sickened by the reaction of the ghoulish and really repulsive reaction of the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, to Charlie's death. Basically made it all about him and all about his country. Immediately trying to take the energy, the sadness, the grief that people felt over Charlie's murder, and redirect it toward support for whatever project he's involved in... I don't think that I've ever seen anything lower than this attempt to hijack Charlie's memory and use it for his own political ends, particularly because what he said was completely untrue.”
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Recorded in: Tucker Carlson Drops BOMBSHELL About Charlie Kirk, Bibi The Young Turks (September 18, 2025)
“Q: Why do you think you get tagged so often with antisemitism? A: … I’ve been told for many years that Israel has a unique right globally to exist. Where does that right emanate from, who granted that right, and on what grounds? And they can’t answer the questions and they don’t want to have the conversation. So just to be totally clear: asking questions is not hate. Telling the truth is not hate. They don’t want to answer the question and they don’t want to tell the truth.”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Interview: Tucker Carlson says Donald Trump is being held hostage by Benjamin Netanyahu, The New York Times Magazine, Lulu Garcia-Navarro (10 May 2026)
“Q: [Why did you vote for Trump?] A: That year was a choice between a lady [Hillary Clinton], who killed Qaddafi for no reason and turned Libya into a gaping wound, which it remains, and then laughed about it, and a guy who said the Iraq war was a mistake. So for me, that was not even a close call.”
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“It's a good thing Al Gore has an unappealing demeanor, or George W. Bush would be in real trouble. Bush delivered a mediocre performance at the first presidential debate in Boston. For the first half an hour he appeared nervous. Several times he seemed to lose his train of thought in mid-sentence. Though he relaxed as the night progressed, his remarks often lacked focus. He left Gore's endless attacks on the "wealthiest one percent of Americans" essentially unchallenged. He offered no defense of his own pro-life views, allowing Gore, a genuine extremist on abortion, to sound like the candidate with the mainstream position. He even let Gore interrupt him, repeatedly. Bush was not impressive. Happily for Republicans, Gore was far worse. If George W. Bush is elected president, it will be to a great extent because millions of undecided voters entered the voting booth, considered the phrase "President Gore," and shuddered.”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Delivering remarks on the first presidential debate of the 2000 presidential election;
“I had just gotten off the Crossfire set when one of our producers handed me a stack of mail. On the way to the elevator, I glanced at it. On top of the pile was a registered letter from a law firm. It got my attention immediately. I've never had a pleasant letter from a lawyer. This one was worse than most. It was written by an attorney in Indiana named Paul M. Blanton. Blanton wanted to let me know that his client, a woman named Kimberly Carter, was planning to file criminal sex charges against me in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. "Ms. Carter has informed me that she was raped by you," Blanton wrote. "If you should have any questions or concerns about any of the aforementioned, please do not hesitate to contact me." Should I have any questions or concerns? I didn't know where to begin. Rape? Kentucky? Criminal charges? I knew I hadn't raped anyone. I didn't think I'd ever even been to Kentucky.”
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“Carlson: Well, I think they could get railroaded. I mean, you know, look, here's the bottom line. And I said this the other day and there was all this outrage and, “How could you say that,” but I mean, this woman sells sex for a living. OK? I'm not attacking that — I'm merely noting it. She sells sex for a living. If she's accusing other people of nonconsensual sex, it's a little more complicated than if some, you know, housewife claims she was pulled off the street and raped. It's just not the same thing. It's harder to determine what's consensual and what's not. And to act like, you know, these guys absolutely did it because she's this oppressed stripper, pardon me, adult dancer or exotic dancer, whatever the hell they're calling her, is ridiculous. I mean, these kids, maybe they did do something wrong, I don't know. But, I mean, you got to give them the benefit of the doubt.”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Discussing the Duke lacrosse case, which saw three men cleared of false rape accusations (April 8, 2006);
“That is not actually what is illegal as far as I understand. What I understand is the removal of an entire portion of the female sex organ without the consent of the child. Now you underwent this as an adult, there is a quantum difference between making a decision to do something like that and having that decision made for you, that cannot be reversed, as a child. That seems to me, probably the worst thing you could do to a child. Would you concede, because there are a lot of women who feel mutilated by this .. this is not, y'know .. this is being lead by women .. that maybe we should let adults make this decision and not impose it on six year olds .. is that fair?”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 3 May 2017 discussion and followup with anthropologist Fuambai Ahmadu
“This was mid-October 2001. I’d gone to Pakistan for New York magazine to cover the Taliban. I was flying from Islamabad to Peshawar, on the Afghan border, to Dubai. It was right after 9/11, so everyone was paranoid about air travel. I was sitting in first class on a big Airbus, and everyone was chain-smoking Marlboros. There were clouds of cigarette smoke, but no alcohol was allowed. We stop in Peshawar, and all these randoms file in and sit on the floor of the cockpit and smoke cigarettes. It made me nervous. This was not a First World thing to do. So we took off again, and because of the bombings in Afghanistan, we had to fly the long way around, over Iran. It ended up being a four-hour flight. Around two in the morning, we’re starting to descend. All of a sudden, bam, the plane just stops . . . And then the plane starts to drop. The engines rev and the plane turns sideways. It’s clear we’re crashing, no doubt about it. People are screaming. We finally touch down and bounce right off the runway. The right wing snaps off and all these sparks are coming up. Everyone knows we’re going to die . . . You’d think in the face of imminent death you’d be like, This is happening, it’s inevitable, and I’m peaceful about it. I was not peaceful at all. So the plane goes into a sand dune and ends up on its side. I was the first person off. I kicked open the door, the slide came down, I ran into the darkness and immediately got picked up by guards. I was brought to a room, locked in there and then put on a British Airways flight eight hours later.”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Recounting the time he was involved in a plane crash in October 2001 in an interview with Playboy on October 25, 2018;
“You know, the funny thing about that, and one of the reasons I’ve never talked about it, is there’s no winning. Either you lie and say, “I’m so wounded by that.” Or you tell the truth and sound like a sociopath. In my case, the truth is my childhood wasn’t that bad. It was actually pretty fun. I love my dad. Losing my mom was sad, I guess. My parents got divorced because my mom was a nutcase. Boo-hoo, poor me. But my dad got remarried to a wonderful woman, my stepmom, whom I love. I always worried I was suppressing all this rage. I used to say to my girlfriend, now wife, “What am I going to do if she ever reappears?” Then I actually did get the call, and it turned out she was living in remote France, in the Pyrénées mountains, working as a sculptor . . . [My aunt] called me and said, “Your mother’s dying.” That didn’t even make sense to me. “My mother? Who’s my mother?” And she said, “Your mother. You know, my sister.” . . . “She’s dying and she’s going to be gone soon. You’ve got to go visit her.” I thought about it, and I said, “No, I don’t think I do.”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On his mother and being told her whereabouts for the first time after she left him in 1976 in an interview with Playboy on October 25, 2018;
“It’s obvious we need more scientists and skilled engineers. What we’re getting instead are waves of poor people with a high school education or less. They’re nice people; nobody doubts that. But as an economic matter, this is insane. It’s indefensible, so nobody tries to defend it. It’s indefensible, so no one even tries to defend it.Instead, our leaders demand you shut up and accept it. We’ve got a moral obligation to admit the world’s poor, they tell us, even if it makes our own country poorer, dirtier and more divided. Immigration is a form of atonement. Previous leaders of our country committed sins. So, we must pay for those sins by welcoming an endless chain of migrant caravans.”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Tucker Carlson Tonight on December 13, 2018; ; ; ; ; ; ;
“Voters knew from the very beginning exactly who Bill Clinton was. They knew because voters always know. In politics as in life, nothing is really hidden, only ignored. A candidate’s character is transparent . . . Voters understood Clinton's weaknesses. They just didn't care . . . Once he got elected, Clinton seemed to forget he'd won . . . Clinton's new priorities seemed to mirror those of the New York Times editorial page: gun control, global warming, gays in the military. His approval rating tanked. New Gingrich and the Republicans took over Congress in the first midterm election. Clinton quickly learned his lesson. He scurried back to the middle and stayed there for the next six years, through scandal and impeachment. Clinton understood that as long as he stayed connected to the board center of American public opinion, voters would overlook his personal shortcomings . . . That's how democracy works . . . Somehow, Bill Clinton's heirs learned nothing from the experience.”
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“Thanks to mass immigration, America has experienced greater demographic change in the last few decades than any other country in history has undergone during peacetime . . . If you grew up in America, suddenly nothing looks the same. Your neighbors are different. So is the landscape and the customs and very often the languages you hear on the street. You may not recognize your own hometown. Human beings aren’t wired for that . . . [W]e are told these changes are entirely good . . . We must celebrate the fact that a nation that was overwhelmingly European, Christian, and English-speaking fifty years ago has become a place with no ethnic majority, immense religious pluralism, and no universally shared culture or language.”
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“The few sincere liberals left, the ones actually fighting corporate power, seem like bewildered relics from an earlier age. For generations, there was no more famous activist on the left than Ralph Nader . . . If life were fair, Nader would be living out his days in a socialist retirement home in Florida, greeting a parade of awestruck liberal pilgrims. Instead, he's mostly reviled by his former admirers. His crime was daring to run for president in 2000. Democrats blamed him for Al Gore's narrow loss to George W. Bush. They never stopped blaming him. "Ralph Nader Still Refuses to Admit He Elected Bush," read a headline in New York magazine sixteen years after the election.”
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“Ilhan Omar has an awful lot to be grateful for, but she isn't grateful, not at all. After everything America has done for Omar and for her family, she hates this country more than ever . . . Omar isn't disappointed in America, she's enraged by it. Virtually every public statement she makes accuses Americans of bigotry and racism. This is an immoral country, she says. She has undisguised contempt for the United States and for its people. That should worry you, and not just because Omar is now a sitting member of Congress. Ilhan Omar is living proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this country. A system designed to strengthen America is instead undermining it. Some of the very people we try hardest to help have come to hate us passionately. Maybe that's our fault for asking too little of our immigrants. We aren't self-confident enough to make them assimilate, so they never feel fully American. Or maybe the problem is deeper than that, maybe we are importing people from places whose values are simply antithetical to ours. Who knows what the problem is, but there is a problem, and whatever the cause, this cannot continue. It's not sustainable. No country can import large numbers of people who hate it and expect to survive. The Romans were the last to try that, with predictable results. So, be grateful for Ilhan Omar, annoying as she is. She's a living fire alarm, a warning to the rest of us that we better change our immigration system immediately, or else.”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Tucker Carlson Tonight on July 9, 2019; ; ; ; ;
“Millions of Americans sincerely love Donald Trump. They love him in spite of everything they've heard. They love him, often, in spite of himself. They're not deluded. They know exactly who Trump is. They love him anyway. They love Donald Trump because no one else loves them. The country they built, the country their ancestors fought for over hundreds of years, has left them to die in unfashionable little towns, mocked and despised by the sneering halfwits with finance degrees -- but no actual skills -- who seem to run everything all of a sudden. Whatever Donald Trump's faults, he is better than the rest of the people in charge. At least he doesn't hate them for their weakness. Donald Trump, in other words, is and has always been a living indictment of the people who run this country. That was true four years ago when he came out of nowhere to win the presidency. And it's every bit as true right now, maybe even more true than it's ever been. It will remain true regardless of whether Donald Trump wins reelection.”
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Recorded in: On Tucker Carlson Tonight on November 2, 2020;
“A couple of weeks ago, I was watching [a] video of people fighting on the street in Washington. A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living shit out of him. It was three against one, at least. Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It's not how white men fight. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they'd hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid. I could taste it. Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off: this isn’t good for me. I'm becoming something I don't want to be. The Antifa creep is a human being. Much as I despise what he says and does, much as I'm sure I'd hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldn't gloat over his suffering. I should be bothered by it. I should remember that somewhere somebody probably loves this kid, and would be crushed if he was killed. If I don't care about those things, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is?”
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Recorded in: Text message to a Fox producer (January 7, 2021), as cited in "Carlson's Text That Alarmed Fox Leaders: 'It’s Not How White Men Fight'" The New York Times (May 2, 2023)
“Streams of politicians, who just months before had told us that cops were racist by definition, praised Brian Sicknick as a hero. They had finally found a police officer who served their political uses. Just one problem: The story they told was a lie from beginning to end. Officer Sicknick was not beaten to death, with a fire extinguisher or anything else. According to an exhaustive and fascinating new analysis on Revolver News, there's no evidence that Brian Sicknick was hit with a fire extinguisher at any point on Jan 6. The officer's body apparently bore no signs of trauma. In fact, on the night of Jan. 6, long after rioters at the Capitol had been arrested or dispersed, Brian Sicknick texted his brother from his office. According to his brother, Sicknick said he'd been "pepper sprayed twice" but was otherwise "in good shape". Twenty-four hours later, Officer Brian Sicknick was dead.”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Casting doubt on the initially reported cause of death of Capitol Officer Brian Sicknick in the aftermath of the storming of the U.S. Capitol on February 10, 2021;
“[T]wo sitting members of the United States Senate announced they oppose the entire foundation of American civil rights law, and then proceed to attack the core principle, the main principle, of our country. Some people on Twitter were shocked by it, but otherwise you’d never really know it happened. But it did happen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois and Mazie Hirono of Hawaii publicly informed the White House that until the Biden administration puts more people they like in powerful jobs, they will refuse to confirm White nominees. ‘I am a no vote on the floor on all non-diversity nominees,’ Duckworth said, out loud, with cameras rolling. ‘I will vote for racial minorities and I will vote for LGBTQ, but anybody else, I’m not voting for.’ .. So here you have two actual U.S. senators announcing in public they will deny jobs to people who have the wrong skin color. That’s not news? Oh yes, it is news, though Mazie Hirono and Tammy Duckworth may not realize it’s news. In their defense, Hirono and Duckworth are well-known as the dimmest politicians in Washington. Neither one could carry a dinner conversation. But not everyone in Congress is stupid or oblivious. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., certainly isn’t. The Senate Majority Leader misses nothing. Chuck Schumer has spent his entire life telling us at high volume that racial discrimination is wrong, which obviously it is. Then, this week, two of his colleagues went on television to demand racial discrimination. What did Chuck Schumer think of that? Schumer didn’t say a word about it. No one in the Democratic Party did.”
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Recorded in: Tucker Carlson Tonight, “Democrats want to deny jobs based on race”, March 24, 2021
“You don't want to live in a country in which moral panics breakout regularly. By the way, moral panics diminish the people engage in them and hurt the people who don’t. They're degrading. They're crazy. They're the opposite of what you want. You want to live in a country where wisdom and restraint and rational behavior and decency determine the outcomes not screaming. So for nearly two years, the shouting has not ended. Hysteria is now the official language of public discourse in the United States. That's not good for anyone except those benefiting from it... Who is benefitting? Anyone who lies for a living. The liars have perfect cover.”
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Recorded in: Tucker Carlson explains how moral panics are destroying America, The Post Millennial (March 8, 2022
“On the Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam] No one who's paid to cover these things seem to entertain even the possibility it could have been Ukrainians who did it. No chance of that. Ukraine, as you may have heard, is led by a man called Zelensky. We can say for a dead certain fact that he was not involved. He couldn't have been; Zelensky is too decent for terrorism. Now you see him on television, and it’s true you might form a different impression. Sweaty and rat-like, a comedian turned oligarch, a persecutor of Christians, a friend of [US investment giant] BlackRock. But don't believe your own eyes. Actually, Mr Zelensky is a very good man... of all the people in the world, our shifty, dead-eyed Ukrainian friend in the tracksuit is uniquely incapable of blowing up a damn. He's literally a living saint, a man in whom there is no sin.”
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“There has to be a point at which Dad comes home. Yeah, that's right! Dad comes home. And he's pissed! Dad is pissed! He's not vengeful, he loves his children, disobedient as they may be, he loves them. Because they are his children, they live in his house. But he's very disappointed in their behaviour, and he's gonna have to let them know. He's gonna have — "Get to your room, right now! And think about what you did!" And when Dad gets home, you know what he says? You’ve been a bad girl. You’ve been a bad little girl and you’re getting a vigorous spanking right now. And, no, it’s not going to hurt me more than it hurts you. No it’s not. I’m not going to lie. It’s going to hurt you a lot more than it hurts me. And you earned this. You’re getting a vigorous spanking because you’ve been a bad girl, and it has to be this way.”
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Recorded in: Tucker Carlson Compares Trump To Angry Dad 'Spanking' To a 'Bad Little Girl' at Trump Rally (24 October 2024)
“You hope Charlie Kirk's death won't be used by a group we now call bad actors to create a society that was the opposite of the one he worked to build. You hope that! You hope a year from now, the turmoil we're seeing in the aftermath of his murder won't be leveraged to bring hate speech laws to this country. And trust me...if that does happen, there is never a more justified moment for civil disobedience than that—ever, and there never will be. Because if they can tell you what to say, they're telling you what to think, there is nothing they can't do to you because they don't consider you human. They don't believe you have a soul.”
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Recorded in: 18 September 2025 per NewsWeek article following the death of Charlie Kirk