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Gwen Ifill
American
Journalist
About the author
Whatever their motivations, lawmakers on both side of the aisle have certainly discovered that immigration is one of those issues that resonate strongly with the public.
Gwen Ifill,
American
Journalist
#Public
One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.
Gwen Ifill,
American
Journalist
#Needs
#Measure
#Debt
Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.
Gwen Ifill,
American
Journalist
#Being
#Questions
It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines.
Gwen Ifill,
American
Journalist
#Years
#President
#Trade
The President has launched a very agressive campaign of self-defense, with the goal of getting Americans to buy into his vision of America on the world stage.
Gwen Ifill,
American
Journalist
#World
#Vision
#President
#Self
#America
#Americans
#Goal
There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here.
Gwen Ifill,
American
Journalist
#Old
#Interest
Tony Blair - good thing there are not parliamentary elections in this country.
Gwen Ifill,
American
Journalist
#Country
#Elections
We're not paying attention to the fact that Hillary Clinton is running in 2006. Everyone is looking to her for the future. It's the same with anybody else who's positioning themselves.
Gwen Ifill,
American
Journalist
#Future
#Attention
#Fact
#Running
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,
American
Journalist
#Time
#People
#Freedom
#President
#Applause
#Military
#Audiences
When the President was asked about global warming at a public appearance yesterday, he responded by talking about America's addiction to oil. You make the connection.
Gwen Ifill,
American
Journalist
#Public
#President
#America
#Talking
#Oil
#Appearance
#Yesterday
#Connection
#Addiction
#Global warming
You would like me to say that the veil will be ripped from the voters' eyes sometime between now and November, thereby restoring the proper version of Democracy to the House and Senate. I won't say that, of course. The simple reason is, I don't know.
Gwen Ifill,
American
Journalist
#Now
#Will
#Reason
#Democracy
#Eyes
#Senate
Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?
Gwen Ifill,
American
Journalist
#Country
#Proof
#Citizenship
We will wait to see if it is a doozy before we decide how to cover it, and what it all means.
Gwen Ifill,
American
Journalist
#Will
Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.
Gwen Ifill,
American
Journalist
#President
#Job
#Management
On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.
Gwen Ifill,
American
Journalist
Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.
Gwen Ifill,
American
Journalist
#History
The common agenda both sides seem to share is: Whatever works.
Gwen Ifill,
American
Journalist
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,
American
Journalist
#Will
#News
#Journalism
#Programming
#Frontline
Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office.
Gwen Ifill,
American
Journalist
#Office
History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.
Gwen Ifill,
American
Journalist
#People
#Being
#History
#Change
Hope springs eternal, even in politics.
Gwen Ifill,
American
Journalist
#Hope
#Politics
I'm a preacher's kid, and we were always told, Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.
Gwen Ifill,
American
Journalist
#Time
#Right
#Act
If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on.
Gwen Ifill,
American
Journalist
#Security
#People
#President
#Country
If you start to catalog Hillary Clinton's positions between now and 2008, we're going to have a lot of conversations because there are a lot of places for her to go.
Gwen Ifill,
American
Journalist
#Now
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,
American
Journalist
#Democrats