Judy Woodruff Quotes
If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.
Woodruff, Judy. Remarks at the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals. Partnership for Public Service, 2015.
Explaining why speakers from Washington are more in demand than those from other cities:
Many people think that running a corporation is good training and demonstrates the ability to run the country. However, business leaders who have come into government, almost all like Breton, think the two are very different.
In 1908 William Randolph Hurst made public a series of letters showing that the senator was being paid large sums by the Standard Oil company and was also being instructed on pending legislation. See John Archbold. The senator was pressured out of public life:
There were many national politicians who would publicly castigate homosexuals and yet were themselves gay and in effect were living two lives. For them “coming out of the closet” had a temporary meaning restricted to time and place and then they would go back “in the closet” for their public personae.
Judy Carline Woodruff is a U.S. broadcast journalist who has worked in network, cable, and public television news since 1976. She is the anchor and managing editor of PBS NewsHour. Woodruff has covered every presidential election and convention since 1976. She has interviewed several heads of state and moderated U.S. presidential debates.
