Quotes by Gwen Ifill

Gwen Ifill

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

Firsts

President

Running

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.

Apology

Littles

Upset

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

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.

America

Hands

Party

Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This is a precarious race straddle that most members of the breakthrough generation seem to reject. Even the most well meaning white Obama supporters seem to take deep satisfaction in this idea. Obama, they insisted, could be raceless, a reasurringly optimistic view of America’s deepest burden that ignores countless peices of evidence to the contrary.

Ideas

Optimistic

Views

Barack Obama didn’t get elected president, would never have been elected president, had he decided to run as a black candidate. In order to reach the broadest number of people you have to speak to their interests as broadly as you can.

Numbers

Order

Running

Because I would never work for a niche publication or a niche program on television and because I am a journalist and not an opinion person, my job is to try to see how many different points of view I can represent or how. It’s not even a question of who you don’t offend because you are always going to offend somebody. The question is how can you get people to listen to the information you have to present.

Jobs

People

Views

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

Disagree

Needs

Change comes from listening, learning, caring and conversation.

Caring

Conversation

Listening

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

Jobs

Management

President

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Accountability

Agendas

America

Analysis

Apology

Believe

Bills

Black

Boys

Broken

Careers

Caring

Certain

Chance

Cheer

Children

Clinton

Community

Conversation

Country

Debt

Depth

Disagree

Doors

Eternal

Father

Fighting

Firsts

Florida

Force

Friday

Fun

Gay

Goal

Good Things

Guy

Hands

Hard Work

House

Ideas

Immigration

Income

Jobs

Judging

Keys

Kids

Later In Life

Laughing

Law

Levels

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Quotes by Gwen Ifill

Gwen Ifill

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

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.

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

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.

Barack Obama didn’t get elected president, would never have been elected president, had he decided to run as a black candidate. In order to reach the broadest number of people you have to speak to their interests as broadly as you can.

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

Change comes from listening, learning, caring and conversation.

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

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