Judy Woodruff Quotes

But I want to pay tribute to Anna Lee Woodruff, an extraordinary, selfless woman and beautiful grandmother who in her quiet determined way was a role model for her two daughters, and who left a lasting impression on so many who knew her.

If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.

At work, conversation increases productivity.

And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits.

There are still very few companies run by women these days.

And, clearly, there are many reasons for that, including what many see as the role of both unconscious bias and outright sexism.

Politics is in my blood. I'd love to be involved in 2008, maybe even '06.

I think we have reached such saturation levels, the money at this point doesn't swing election.

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.

Is this administration, the Clinton administration, an administration that needed defending?

In some senses, I think it's almost deliberately anachronistic.

There's a retro feel to the [Donald] Trump program.

And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.

I've never seen Washington as divided as we are right now.

As the mother of a grown son with a traumatic brain injury, I couldn't be more excited about the prospect of finding out how to repair even a small part of the damage that changed his life.

The N-word is one of the most contentious words in the English language.

I see a bit of a contradiction between the fight against the Islamic State and the desire to remove the Assad regime. And even if you work with Russia, I'm just not sold that working with Russia is an effective way to hasten the end of the Assad regime or to enact any type of punitive measures.

There's no embassy for the United States in Iran. So, Iranians process those in other countries.

I think it's important that campaigns be aired all the way through, that people aren't voting three weeks before, before debates are held.

United States military involvement in Syria has deepened since President Trump took office.

I don't think anyone is closer to the voters in Washington than members of the House of Representatives.

Vaclav Havel was the most amazing man in terms of being the combination of somebody with massive moral authority, great courage for having espoused the concepts of democracy, freedom throughout a very difficult communist period, a very modest man, and somebody with a fabulous sense of humor and the idea of being able to see the absurd in situations.

I think that, from Vaclav Havel own experience, he knew if we all paid attention to what was going on, the chances were that even the most horrible dictators wouldn't execute people.

It's very typical that when two people are having lunch, they put a phone on the table between them.

Viewing that complex relationship one-sidedly from the aspect of manufacturing and the impact of Chinese imports on the United States makes sense from the point of view of the Rust Belt of the United States. It may even make sense as a political strategy for a candidate running for office.

There's no doubt that [tax cuts] act as a stimulus.

How could they not, in a sense? You're giving cash back to households.

One of the main things we have been looking at is, how can we get a robot to think about situations it's never seen before?

Every news organization should ideally be as broadly representative as possible.

The vast majority of Americans are employed in service sector industries, and many of those sectors are highly internationalized. The most high-value added sectors, notably the tech sector, is massively globalized. And, for them, it would be a disaster if America's trade policy was to go down a spiraling route towards protectionism.

My job is to try and bring attention to places that don't have it

Vaclav Havel had moral stature. The president in first Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in many ways is a ceremonial role. And so, speaking out and having that strong moral fiber, people just knew that he told the truth to people who had only heard lies. And so I think his - that's his legacy.

There are many things we can live without but a sense of humor is not one of them!

I think he [Vaclav Havel] is one of the great figures of the 20th century.

He is one of the people that was able to be a part of overthrowing a dictatorial system by talking to people and understanding what the elements of democracy really are and respect for each other and elevating.

A dramatic unwinding of that relationship [between USA and China], by way of an aggressive trade policy, is one of the nightmare scenarios for the global economy as a whole, because it would result in a spiraling depreciation of the dollar, a surge in American interests rates, a collapse in the market for American government debt.

From one perspective, we're in the early stage in artificial intelligence, but exponentials start out slowly, and then they take off.

Vaclav Havel had this great sense of humor.

And you kind of felt that he was making a little bit fun of everything at the same time.

When it comes to economics, president-elect [Donald] Trump has promised to revive American manufacturing, get tough on trade with China, cut taxes and invest in infrastructure.

Donald Trump rejected charges of ties between his campaign and Russia, blasted the intelligence community for leaks, and repeatedly attacked the news media. The president said he inherited a mess at home and abroad, but he dismissed the notion of a White House in turmoil.

In the study, 89 percent of Americans said that they interrupted their last social encounter by looking at a phone. And 82 percent of them said that it deteriorated the conversation.

So many times, white - non-college-education - educated white males have voted Republican. They voted against their own economic interests because of guns, because of gays, and because of God, the three G's, God being the woman's right to choose.

That was an exception within the [Barack] Obama administration's economic policy, a crisis that he inherited from the previous administration, and felt it was essential to carry through on.

We decided to focus on women because no one was singling them out.

He was a lifelong Republican, but over the years, Harry Blackmun built a reputation as a liberal, sometimes defiant Justice, whose fierce protection of individual rights led some to anoint him the moral conscience of the court.

More than half the U.S. population and more than half of the voters in this election were women. Among them, 42 percent voted for Donald Trump, 54 percent went for Hillary Clinton, essentially the reverse of how men voted.

That's one of the surprises in the research, that's it's not young people who are smitten with their phones. It's their parents who are not paying attention to them.

Income tax in particular in the United States is concentrated on the top half of the income distribution, and very heavily skewed towards the top 10 or even top 1 percent.

Election Day now has become the last day to vote.

Every president feels that he has gotten unfair, dishonest coverage from the news media.

I think, as a historian, what strikes one the most about this [Donald'd Trump] program is just simply its nationalism, with his commitment to the redevelopment of American manufacturing and industrial jobs, providing jobs for the constituency that was so important in electing him.

If you're using technology in a way that opens out conversation in your family, with your friends, with people you care about, I'm for that. But if you're using technology to silence the conversations with the people around you, then you have to create sacred spaces in your home, the kitchen, the dining room, the car.

A.I. poses a potential threat more dangerous than nuclear weapons.

For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation.