Latest Gwen Ifill Quotes from Interviews

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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

• I don't think that Donald Trump represents the traditional Republican values and heritage of my party. That's one reason that I don't support him. The Republican Party has always revered the individual. We led the way in abolishing slavery, for example, and we recognize the dignity and worth of every human being. it is clear that Donald Trump, by his derogatory comments, by his mocking of the most vulnerable people in our society, by his marginalization of ethnic and religious minorities, doesn't reflect the traditional Republican values.

  Gwen Ifill

  Religious, Party, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Gwen Ifill

  Thinking, Violence

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

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

  Gwen Ifill

  Rocks, Progress, Littles

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I knew early on that I wanted to be a reporter, but I didn't know I was a political journalist until my first job in Boston, in the '70s, covering the public school committee at a time when busing was a huge issue. Children's lives were being directly affected by political decisions, and that's when I realized that everything is politics.

  Gwen Ifill

  Jobs, Children, School

  Source: www.oprah.com

• My family was very engaged in the world around us. My father was an African Methodist Episcopal minister and an immigrant from Panama. He was deeply involved in civil rights causes, which scared my mother - she was also an immigrant, from Barbados, who had her hands full with six kids, and she worried that my father would get deported. But because of his passion for politics and civil rights, we paid close attention to current events. We would watch political conventions together - for fun!

  Gwen Ifill

  Mother, Fun, Father

  Source: www.oprah.com

• The latest national polls show a tightening in the race to the White House, especially in key states like Ohio and Florida. But when it comes down to it, winning in November [2016] will depend on which candidate has a viable path to 270 electoral votes.

  Gwen Ifill

  Winning, Keys, Florida

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Change comes from listening, learning, caring and conversation.

  Gwen Ifill

  Caring, Listening, Conversation

  Source: www.pbs.org

• It's funny, everywhere I go some people ask me whether it's going to be a Latino breakthrough, some people ask me whether it's going to be a female breakthrough, and then I'm reminded that five years ago we didn't even know Barack Obama's name.

  Gwen Ifill

  Years, Names, People

  "Gwen Ifill’s Truth". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. March 29, 2009.

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

  Gwen Ifill

  Willing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• 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

• 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

• 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

• People are always surprised when they see me speak live that I have a sense of humor. And I say, Well, you know, there's not much opportunity to laugh when you're reporting the dread news of the day.

  Gwen Ifill

  Opportunity, People, Laughing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• It's not surprising that you wouldn't see that side of me on television, but in real life I find the world to be quite a funny place.

  Gwen Ifill

  Real, Television, World

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• 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

• 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

• I think I'm careful. My goal is to try to stay away as much from opinion journalism as possible.

  Gwen Ifill

  Thinking, Goal, Trying

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• In the media universe we're in, where there are people screaming on one end, there is no problem at all with having a little bit of extra politeness.

  Gwen Ifill

  Media, People, Littles

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• I'm not in love. I'm not out of love. I'm just trying to find some version of the truth.

  Gwen Ifill

  Trying, Versions

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• 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.

  Gwen Ifill

  Running, Order, Numbers

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• I just think we as consumers of information media must be very clear what it is we are consuming. Whether we are choosing to get our information by listening to people fight about it. Or whether we're choosing to get it by listening to the facts or watching the facts as they're laid out and then reaching our own conclusions. It's very different ways of info gathering, but it's not all journalism.

  Gwen Ifill

  Fighting, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• I spent my career trying to speak to the broadest possible audience whether it's in print or whether it's in television.

  Gwen Ifill

  Careers, Trying, Television

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• 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.

  Gwen Ifill

  Jobs, Views, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com