Judy Woodruff Quotes

From one perspective, we're in the early stage in artificial intelligence, but exponentials start out slowly, and then they take off.

I think he [Vaclav Havel] probably would have liked to have written more plays. I think he missed being a playwright.I think he talked about wanting to write plays and keep appealing to people through that medium, rather than politics.

Young people realize that something is amiss. There's a generation that fell in love with their phones, and it's very hard for them to see that there's a problem. But young people are desperate for the attention of their parents, who are really not paying attention to them.

You may not realize it, but artificial intelligence is all around us.

My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.

I think that, from Vaclav Havel own experience, he knew if we all paid attention to what was going on, the chances were that even the most horrible dictators wouldn't execute people.

Historically, when times are bad, voters, especially in the Industrial Midwest, have turned to the Democrats.

There's no embassy for the United States in Iran. So, Iranians process those in other countries.

Vaclav Havel was the most amazing man in terms of being the combination of somebody with massive moral authority, great courage for having espoused the concepts of democracy, freedom throughout a very difficult communist period, a very modest man, and somebody with a fabulous sense of humor and the idea of being able to see the absurd in situations.

It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.

Americans tend not to be too enthusiastic about having their taxes raised again ... But if the American people aren't going to accept it, if the politicians don't have the courage to raise taxes, what are we facing down the road?

The system was afraid of Vaclav Havel. And so they either harassed him for put him in jail.

In the study, 89 percent of Americans said that they interrupted their last social encounter by looking at a phone. And 82 percent of them said that it deteriorated the conversation.

AFSCME stands for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

If you're using technology in a way that opens out conversation in your family, with your friends, with people you care about, I'm for that. But if you're using technology to silence the conversations with the people around you, then you have to create sacred spaces in your home, the kitchen, the dining room, the car.

Every news organization should ideally be as broadly representative as possible.

Vaclav Havel had this great sense of humor. And you kind of felt that he was making a little bit fun of everything at the same time.

Politics is in my blood. I'd love to be involved in 2008, maybe even '06.

People put on their earphones, they lay out their phones, they put - open up their computers, and they convince themselves that they're most productive when they're focused on their e-mail, when, really, they're ignoring the cafeteria, the watercooler, the meetings with colleagues, the times when really the creativity, collaboration happens.

One of the main things we have been looking at is, how can we get a robot to think about situations it's never seen before?

If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.

There are many things we can live without but a sense of humor is not one of them!

People want jobs, but nobody has a recipe for how to get them. And so they are trying different things.

And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.

But I want to pay tribute to Anna Lee Woodruff, an extraordinary, selfless woman and beautiful grandmother who in her quiet determined way was a role model for her two daughters, and who left a lasting impression on so many who knew her.

I think he [Vaclav Havel] is one of the great figures of the 20th century. He is one of the people that was able to be a part of overthrowing a dictatorial system by talking to people and understanding what the elements of democracy really are and respect for each other and elevating.

We decided to focus on women because no one was singling them out.

Senate races are different from House races, in the sense that they are more candidate-driven. The higher the office - that is, I mean, governor, senator, president - the more important the candidate.

As the mother of a grown son with a traumatic brain injury, I couldn't be more excited about the prospect of finding out how to repair even a small part of the damage that changed his life.

The primary implication is that we're going to combine our intelligence with computers. We're going to make ourselves smarter. By the 2030s, they will literally go inside our bodies and inside our brains.

At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits.

As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.

I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays.

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.

My job is to try and bring attention to places that don't have it

A.I. poses a potential threat more dangerous than nuclear weapons.

You can find inspiration when you're not even looking for it.

He [Vaclav Havel] did love music. And so much about the Czech revolution was about music.

In 2008, the Democrats made a great effort among African-American voters, and they did increase their turnout considerably, and among Latino voters.

Of course, man is also a weak creature with many bad qualities. And it depends on which of his qualities will in a certain social situation and in a certain climate prevail, which qualities will awaken. The totalitarian system was masterful in how it managed to mobilize all the bad qualities.

I knew that Vaclav Havel didn't want to look into people's eyes, because he said that, when he was being interrogated during the communist period and had been taken to jail, that, if you look directly into somebody's eyes, they can persuade you. And so you can see that so clearly in this interview, where he's looking down.And I kept saying to him as we kept coming - came over here: " You have to look up."And I clearly had no influence on him.

My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody.'

CD4 being the level of the lymphocyte that indicates the level of your immune function.

Is this administration, the Clinton administration, an administration that needed defending?

A definitive decision to say you should start people on therapy as soon as you know they're infected.

Create sacred spaces in the workplace as well. Classrooms, five years ago, professors would say, I don't want be a nanny to my students. They can do whatever they want. Now professors are saying, put away that laptop, because studies show that it not only takes away the attention of the person who's on the laptop from the class, but everyone around them. There's like a circle around that person that's distracted and not paying attention.