128 Quotes by Gwen Ifill

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

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.

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.

We needed someone to recognize the importance of check and balances, accountability, transparency. There was a real systemic problem at South Carolina State, a problem that has gone on for 25 or 30 years.

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.

It’s never too late to move to a good place to try to improve your child’s outcomes in adulthood.

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.

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

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.