Jake Tapper

Mean is easy. Mean is lazy. Mean is self-satisfied and slothful.

You know what takes effort? Being kind. Being patient. Being respectful.

I have asked people repeated follow-ups for a while and asked people uncomfortable questions for a while. I just try to hold people accountable.

I can be fairly boring.

Trump is most fun to draw - just a great mash of caricature-able features, from bouffant to eyebrows and scowl, to the high cheekbones and the regal pride.

Everybody should work in their nation's capitol and see how politics actually work because it was the most eye opening experience of my life.

I did freelance cartooning off and on from college graduation in 1991 through ABC News hiring me in 2003. I did a weekly comic strip for 'Roll Call' for about nine years. I sold cartoons and caricatures to 'The Los Angeles Times' and 'The Washington Post.' I drew as much as I could. It's really tough to make a living doing it.

I'm a collaborative person - it makes me better - and sometimes taking that collaboration to Twitter is helpful.

There's a long tradition in this country of questioning generals.

Washington, as we know it, is essentially run by men and women who are not elected or even appointed to their posts, staff members unaccountable to traditional constituencies. They rise according to the needs and whims of their own special constituency of elites.

I'm quite calm when all is well.

As a fan and collector of 'MAD' magazines as a kid, I am well aware that my art is unworthy. I remain in absolute awe of 'MAD' artist Mort Drucker and loved Wally Wood and Harvey Kurtzman and Al Jaffee and Don Martin and Angelo Torres and Peter Kuper and Sergio Aragones.