Judy Woodruff Quotes

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

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.

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

You can find inspiration when you're not even looking for it.

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

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

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

It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.

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

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.

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

My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.

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.

This is naturally the most important thing, the dark traces left by the era of totalitarianism in the human mind, where is - are difficult to do away with. And this is a very demanding job.

The sorts of sectors which feature so largely in the [Donald] Trump program, and its rhetoric, account now for perhaps only about 15 percent of the American work force.

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.

A definitive decision to say you should start people on therapy as soon as you know they're infected.

President Trump say that relations between the United States and Russia may be at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War.

Almost all of us have wondered at one point or another about the taxes we pay: Where does the money go?

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.

We're obviously in speculation territory here, because we don't know what the Trump administration is going to do.

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

In 2008, the Democrats made a great effort among African-American voters, and they did increase their turnout considerably, and among Latino voters.

He [Vaclav Havel] did love music. And so much about the Czech revolution was about music.

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.

Vaclav Havel didn't want to ride around in big black cars. And he had his own car with a little red heart on it. And he loved to go out and talk to the people.

The field of artificial intelligence is pushing new boundaries.

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

You may not realize it, but artificial intelligence is all around us.

CD4 being the level of the lymphocyte that indicates the level of your immune function.

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

When I think of grass I think of something to walk on, pot as something to put a plant in.

I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the firehouse or the school and they vote at the same time.

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

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

I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays.

I mean, the 1930s are the birth moment of modern public sector, government-driven infrastructure spending.

What we do have is a gigantic matching tax-cutting program as a way of stimulating the economy.

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.

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

If you stimulate the economy by means of a tax cut, the people that you tend to be benefiting are the better off.

Election Day now has become the last day to vote.

AFSCME stands for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody.

Some days you feel like you've had the greatest ego massage, then the next day you've been trampled on.

Machines are on track to be on par with human intelligence in less than 15 years.

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

As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.