Gwen Ifill Quotes

I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.

That's a good question. Let me try to evade you.

I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.

What did you do?” “Well, you see, there was this pot of tea, simply sitting there…” He trailed off. “Useful thing, tea,” commented Lyall thoughtfully.

You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one.

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.

It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it.

If that comes up, I'll just confuse them.

Trump is a master obfuscator. Like an octopus escaping a predator, he releases a cloud of ink when called to the carpet on one of his many lies. His strategy? Obfuscate, then reference others. 'Millions agree,' 'everyone knows,' 'many have done it.'

We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from.

A daydream is an evasion.

I've waffled before. I'll waffle again.

I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.

I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.

Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person.

Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

I can't argue my way out of a paper bag.

It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.

He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you want to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

If it sounds like I’m trying to dodge the question, It’s probably because I am.

I would engage in a sort of syntax destruction that would sound like I was answering the question but actually was not.

Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

The less you want to do about something, the more you have to talk about it

I hope you have not seriously taken amiss my certainly quite cowardly statements…. I wanted to remain free and could not do so without great duplicity.