Latest Judy Woodruff Quotes from Interviews

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• You know what the Russians are saying is that they have an historic relationship with - with Crimea, and they're saying the Crimean legislature has voted now to have a referendum, and they're saying what the government in Kiev did was illegal.

  Judy Woodruff

  Historic

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Judy Woodruff

  Taxes

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Judy Woodruff

  Running, Reason, Sexism

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I see a bit of a contradiction between the fight against the Islamic State and the desire to remove the Assad regime. And even if you work with Russia, I'm just not sold that working with Russia is an effective way to hasten the end of the Assad regime or to enact any type of punitive measures.

  Judy Woodruff

  Islamic, Fighting, Desire

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Judy Woodruff

  Speculation

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The United States and China have both beefed up their naval presence in Southeast Asia, leading to fears of a military confrontation. This is just one example of China flexing its military muscle in recent months, and it coincides with a slowdown in the nation's economy.

  Judy Woodruff

  Military, Economy, Naval

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Judy Woodruff

  War, President, Cold

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Trump said today that if countries are going to have nuclear weapons, then he said the United States needs to be at the top of the back, in his words, meaning increasing the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

  Judy Woodruff

  Country, Today, Nuclear Weapons

  Source: www.pbs.org

• We haven't learned to be the majority party. We haven't learned how to lead. We're still stuck in the opposition.

  Judy Woodruff

  Party, Stuck

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Donald Trump rejected charges of ties between his campaign and Russia, blasted the intelligence community for leaks, and repeatedly attacked the news media. The president said he inherited a mess at home and abroad, but he dismissed the notion of a White House in turmoil.

  Judy Woodruff

  Home, House, Community

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Despite the vast expanse of shoreline in this country, more than 90 percent of the seafood Americans eat is imported.

  Judy Woodruff

  Country

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The president-elect Donald Trump moved a bit closer to getting his Cabinet in place with another round of confirmation hearings. The most contentious was for his treasury secretary pick, Steven Mnuchin, a billionaire banker who worked at Goldman Sachs and owned a hedge fund. There was important news that came out during the hearing. Mnuchin said that he would support raising the debt ceiling sooner rather than later, and not risk the country defaulting.

  Judy Woodruff

  Country, Support, Risk

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Every president feels that he has gotten unfair, dishonest coverage from the news media.

  Judy Woodruff

  Media, President, News

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• I think even Republicans are saying [Andrew] Puzder may have a problem.

  Judy Woodruff

  Thinking, May, Problem

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• There was a bridge to the 21st century, and yet, somehow, for very large number of Americans, it was unclear how you got from one place to the other, from being a manual working-class man to being some part of a Brooklyn-based sharing economy.

  Judy Woodruff

  Men, Bridges, Class

  Source: www.pbs.org

• More than half the U.S. population and more than half of the voters in this election were women. Among them, 42 percent voted for Donald Trump, 54 percent went for Hillary Clinton, essentially the reverse of how men voted.

  Judy Woodruff

  Men, Population, Half

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The vast majority of Americans are employed in service sector industries, and many of those sectors are highly internationalized. The most high-value added sectors, notably the tech sector, is massively globalized. And, for them, it would be a disaster if America's trade policy was to go down a spiraling route towards protectionism.

  Judy Woodruff

  America, Majority, Would Be

  Source: www.pbs.org

• What I think the appeal of the [Donald] Trump program has been is that it offers some kind of concrete, specific, historically rooted, a familiar image of how ordinary Americans, regular Americans can earn their living.

  Judy Woodruff

  Thinking, Ordinary, Kind

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Judy Woodruff

  Program, Trump, Force

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Viewing that complex relationship one-sidedly from the aspect of manufacturing and the impact of Chinese imports on the United States makes sense from the point of view of the Rust Belt of the United States. It may even make sense as a political strategy for a candidate running for office.

  Judy Woodruff

  Running, Views, Impact

  Source: www.pbs.org

• A dramatic unwinding of that relationship [between USA and China], by way of an aggressive trade policy, is one of the nightmare scenarios for the global economy as a whole, because it would result in a spiraling depreciation of the dollar, a surge in American interests rates, a collapse in the market for American government debt.

  Judy Woodruff

  Government, Usa, Dollars

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Judy Woodruff

  Mean, Cutting, People

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• Income tax in particular in the United States is concentrated on the top half of the income distribution, and very heavily skewed towards the top 10 or even top 1 percent.

  Judy Woodruff

  Top 10, Income Distribution, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

• They have two aspects. One is that they're unpredictable, and that often rich and more affluent households are slow to spend the funds. The other thing about tax cuts is that they're redistributive. So they tend, naturally, to benefit those who pay tax.

  Judy Woodruff

  Cutting, Two, Benefits

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• 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.

  Judy Woodruff

  Cutting, Giving, Doubt

  Source: www.pbs.org