Jake Tapper Quotes

Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.

Any celebrity that goes on Twitter and spouts off, as if we should care what they say, is opening himself or herself up to ridicule by anyone else.

You won't see Moonves on Twitter.

Most days I am in public. If I go to the store, with social media, I'm in public. It might as well be a press conference.

Every embarrassing moment is going to be shown on the Internet, whether the candidate likes it or not. The ones that can't deal with that are going to fail.

Politicians used to be able to change the subject. With television they cannot do that any more.

Since the rise of television in the 1950s, the media have become the central forum for American politicking, and increasingly today that role is being played by the blogosphere. With the blogger and the viewer replacing the pamphleteer and the parader, politicians focus on marketing themselves and their causes to passive consumers rather than mobilizing passionate soldiers. The new language of politics sounds like this: Spin doctors stage photo ops as pollsters survey voter preferences, spawning celebrity candidates.

The truth is, in this age of Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat, we know way too much about athletes - and it's their fault.

It's nice to have the power of Twitter to correct things that were incorrect.

If I was on Twitter, I'd probably get in trouble pretty quickly.

Personally, I don't have a Twitter account. I like to be in control of the way the stand up of Stewart Lee is perceived, I don't want to have to engage with individual people. Also, when I do look at it, loads of factually inaccurate things about me are written.

It's difficult to get away from the media, from social media. It's a big thing in society and in football, in particular.

Social media has come a long way. With the good has come some bad, and you always have a lot of people hiding behind their computers and being very critical of what you do on and off the field, of what you tweet, of what you say, of everything you do.

Obama and Clinton make an interesting contrast in brands.

With social media now, we kind of get that inside look at WWE Superstars' lives.

People bring up tweets that I don't even remember, and my general response is, 'I don't know if I said it. I probably said it.' It's just part of what I do.

People don't have the opportunity to be larger than life anymore - they're afraid of seeing it on the Internet.

Certainly on a political and a legislative level, Bill Clinton was effective, but the example that he ultimately left, I think for posterity, tragically, is going to begin with that single paragraph lead with the White House intern.

I am not obsessed with social media fame, but I do think that it's a great tool by which I can stay in touch with my fans.

Norman Parke needs to stay off of Twitter before he gets himself in a fight he can't win.

Twitter is the most impulsive form of social media, but it's still the most celebrated among politicians and pundits within the Beltway, which is curious, since it can destroy any sense of privacy.

I think time has changed a lot and you need to be presentable all the time. Social media has become really important and I feel some artistes must not be sleeping as they need to be visible all the time.

I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.

When you're young and search your name on Twitter to see what everyone is saying about you, which everyone does when you're young… it was one of those things I had to get on with.

To be in the media is to be in the wings. Being in politics is being on the stage.