Juan Williams Quotes

When I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.

Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.

The truth is that you - people are doing scientific research with fetal tissue and it's not as if - no, this is brand-new news. This is something funded by.

Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office.

For me, the key is I always have to be the same person.If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.'

When I'm on TV, I'm often talking to a conservative host. I may have another conservative arguing with me. You've got very limited time, and you're using 'sound-bite' type language.

My wife and I, Delice and I, are empty nesters.

There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation.

I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant ,and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing the Left.

The Republicans want to turn Medicare into a voucher plan that will end guaranteed coverage of medical bills for the elderly.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Israel, in terms of Jewish values, and what I have been reading in Jewish papers, and hear from Jewish around the country, they are upset about Donald Trump.

If you're a black kid, you're going to have hell in your life.

I think you know what? You've got to believe in yourself. You can do it.

I don't think there's any shortage of tough, sometimes vicious rhetoric about President Barack Obama coming from the right. Talk radio shows dominated by conservatives.

It's almost a shock to me to go into places, and there's smoking these days. Boy, my life has changed, because everybody used to smoke.

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.

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

Sons love moms forevermore.

Every American president must be held to the highest standard. No president of any color should be given a free pass for screw-ups, lies or failure to keep a promise.

The factual reality is that the vast majority of immigrants - legal and illegal - contribute more to this country than they take out in social services.

When it comes to serious cuts to major programs like Medicaid, the American people are not calling for leadership but magic. They want cuts with no pain.