Gwen Ifill Quotes

Change comes from listening, learning, caring and conversation.

Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.

Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet.

Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.

In the media universe we're in, where there are people screaming on one end, there is no problem at all with having a little bit of extra politeness.

I'm not in love. I'm not out of love. I'm just trying to find some version of the truth.

I spent my career trying to speak to the broadest possible audience whether it's in print or whether it's in television.

Hope springs eternal, even in politics.

People are always surprised when they see me speak live that I have a sense of humor. And I say, Well, you know, there's not much opportunity to laugh when you're reporting the dread news of the day.

It's never too late to move to a good place to try to improve your child's outcomes in adulthood.

I think I'm careful. My goal is to try to stay away as much from opinion journalism as possible.

History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.

Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.

It's not surprising that you wouldn't see that side of me on television, but in real life I find the world to be quite a funny place.

A lot of Democrats are not that upset with Howard Dean. Howard Dean gets out here and he says these inflammatory things, and he doesn't apologize. He doesn't back down a little bit.

When the President was asked about global warming at a public appearance yesterday, he responded by talking about America's addiction to oil. You make the connection.

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office.

On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.

Even marginal progress could be affected by investigations in Little Rock and in Washington.

I'm not really good at being predictive, so I guess I'm willing to be surprised.

If you take the same child and put them in two different places, it will dramatically shape the way in which their economic outcomes are realized later in life.

We used to say in the black community that if somebody else caught a cold, we caught pneumonia.

I certainly don't think Donald Trump suggesting violence in any way.

I actually think agendas are more often found in State of the Union speeches than in inaugural speeches.

[It's] Rare for a first lady to be running for president.

I find that those who voted for George W. Bush are less offended by his religious references, and those who voted for Bill Clinton did not seem offended at all when people prayed at his inauguration.

All of our panelists are deeply engaged in the topics at hand, so that leaves me free to convene a little dinner party, sans alcohol, and invite the rest of America to listen in.

Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.

I'm not quite certain how you can force a candidate to stick by the rules.

Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.