J.M. Williams Quotes

I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.

In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.

You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict

American people are a little tired of anybody saying, let's get back in war. Why don't we go back (inaudible).

Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.

Ann Romney... looked to me like a corporate wife. The stories she told about struggles - eh! It's hard for me to believe. I mean, she's a very rich woman, and I know that, and America knows that.

[Barack] Obama administration looking at taking a more aggressive stance and some of the Arab countries coming together.

I think that you have a situation where one political party, in specific, if you watched the Republican debate, it's all about terrorism.

The Democrats thought that Hillary Clinton is too aggressive and too much into regime change.

Mitt Romney, both did better with the military than Donald [Trump].

Sons love moms forevermore.

In the last 100 years only Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford lost their bids for reelection. President Lyndon Johnson did not run for a second term.

I'm not a predictable black liberal.

In 2008, Obama won 56 percent of the women's vote to John McCain's 43 percent. It was the critical difference in the race.

As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.

In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.

Teddy Kennedy rose to become a liberal lion by collaborating with Republicans.

There is absolutely zero chance that ObamaCare will be repealed while Democrats control the Senate and President Obama is in the White House.

There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades.

In 2008, when the real estate market blew up, it principally hurt older people who saw the value of their houses go down, along with their pension plans.

Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.

Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.

Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.

Alaska and Montana are not in the south but they definitely form part of the crimson tide of red states where Republicans are dominant.

Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns.

There is a problem here in America when it comes to police violence and gun violence, that I believe is being ignored by not giving the proper resources to communities.

I defy anyone now to tell me about patriotism and what America stands for, while we've elected a man who ran on everything that's anathema to what people say that America stands for.

We've learned that Donald Trump can say whatever he wants and switch it a minute later, and nobody really cares.

What's scary is that Donald Trump has his own sordid history when it comes to discrimination - in housing, in particular.

I enjoyed every minute of directing my first film. Hopefully, I will be doing it many, many more times in the future.

If all the actors are in the recording session at the same time, you can record all voices for one episode in an hour. Of course, the animation takes longer but the voice acting is done very quickly.

I'm very happy. I'm doing what I love.

I want to have schools and libraries and other institutions named after me. I tell my daughter that all the time.

I most certainly think we are influencing the way women think about themselves.

95% of being a success is just showing up on time and being there. I don't know how I knew that when I was younger. You have to stick around for people to remember you.

I decided to take a leap of faith and go into business for myself. I'm scared to death!

Ever since I was a child, I've always been fascinated with Sherlock Holmes.

I apologize for the fact that the word ‘anti-Mexican’ is being said to a black guy in America.

He comes back with the script, and it's racist like a 1940's Newspaper.

Real life, raising kids and trying to raise them to be good people takes a lot of work. It's all about (appearing) effortless, yet there's so much effort. You do it the best you can.

I do prenatal yoga and walk a lot.

I love that time when all you want to do is cocoon with your baby in your own little world, when you carry them around all the time in a little pouch or sling.

Meaning to send a thank-you note but then not doing it is exactly the same as never thinking to send one - that person is still receiving zero thank you notes.

Intentions are nice, but ultimately intentions don't really matter because they only exist inside you.

The program is already funded. Everything is in place.

There has been a fundamental paradigm shift. Today's customer expectations are: If i can imagine it, it simply has to be there; if not, I'll invent it myself'

I created EIDWIM20s as a voice for women like myself.

I need to go to my yoga class - I love hot yoga!

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.

What I love is Mexican hot chocolate, like a spicy hot chocolate - adding cayenne pepper to the Hershey's cocoa and making a spicy-sweet treat.