Gwen Ifill Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

  Gwen Ifill

  Pbs, Depth, Analysis

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• I see a pretty bright line between analysis and opinion. And so, to that end, my goal on Friday nights is to try to assemble the smartest reporters who are available to me that week who have been involved in covering the news.

  Gwen Ifill

  Friday, Night, Goal

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If you take the conflicts we are used to dealing with, race over the years in America, and you combine that with the desire or aspiration to political power or taking power from other people, which is what politics is all about, you end up with a lot more friction than you would normally see with just straight-ahead politics.

  Gwen Ifill

  Race, Years, America

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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.

  Gwen Ifill

  Apology, Upset, Littles

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. June 12, 2005.

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

  Gwen Ifill

  Rocks, Progress, Littles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's five factors or characteristics of places where kids from poor backgrounds don't do very well. And those are places that have more economic and racial segregation, places with more income inequality.

  Gwen Ifill

  Kids, Income, Segregation

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One of the unwritten rules in a presidential news conference is that he'll answer questions. If he chooses not to, there's not much you can do about it other than make yourself look like an idiot screaming, which to me is counterproductive.

  Gwen Ifill

  Presidential, Looks, News

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Gwen Ifill

  Pneumonia, Community, Black

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• No parent should be denied from their Scouting - their son's Scouting experience simply because those parents happen to be gay.

  Gwen Ifill

  Son, Gay, Parent

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Discrimination at any level sends a harmful message to youth, gay or straight alike, and that discrimination has no place in Scouting.

  Gwen Ifill

  Gay, Levels, Messages

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Mormon leaders said in a statement they will reexamine their ties to the Boy Scouts. "The church," they said, "has always welcomed all boys to its Scouting units regardless of sexual orientation. However, the admission of openly gay leaders is inconsistent with the doctrines of the church and what have traditionally been the values of the Boy Scouts of America."

  Gwen Ifill

  Gay, Boys, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Gwen Ifill

  Debt, Relief, Needs

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

  Gwen Ifill

  Willing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I want to see a Republican Party that is a big tent, inclusive party that welcomes all people to be Republicans and to contribute their ideas and support our position of providing opportunity to the American people. And I believe he goes in the opposite direction and deepens the divisions that are so pervasive in our society today.

  Gwen Ifill

  Party, Believe, Opportunity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Gwen Ifill

  Thinking, Violence

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The questions about Donald Trump temperament were raised - he suggested that the only way to stop Hillary Clinton from appointing judges that they disagreed with is that maybe the Second Amendment folks could handle it.

  Gwen Ifill

  Judging, Second Amendment, Clinton

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Gwen Ifill

  Thinking, Agendas, Unions

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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

  Gwen Ifill

  Running, President, Firsts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

  Gwen Ifill

  Religious, People, Bills

  "Washington Week: Gwen Ifill". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. January 20, 2005.

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• Our position has never been that people should be forced out of Scouting. We have always said that the values of Scouting are universal they should be welcome to everyone who is willing to live by the Scout oath and the Scout law.

  Gwen Ifill

  Law, People, Welcome

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you are interviewing someone, you have a chance to follow up, to press, to dig in. In a debate there's 30 seconds for the other guy, too. And the goal is to get them to engage with each other, not to engage you necessarily.

  Gwen Ifill

  Goal, Guy, Chance

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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.

  Gwen Ifill

  Party, Hands, America

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Gwen Ifill

  Children, Kids, Odds

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Gwen Ifill

  Sticks, Force, Certain

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• People do still cheer for the President. And some of the military audiences are more likely to cheer than others. I have seen him speak lately in front of groups like Freedom House, where the applause was a long time coming.

  Gwen Ifill

  Cheer, Military, Long

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