Gwen Ifill Quotes

For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.

I finally learned to accept that I can't make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.

So what exactly are the rewards of resentment. It is always a relief to know that the reason we have failed in life is not because we lack the talent, energy, or determination to succeed, but because of a factor that is beyond our control and that has loaded the dice decisively against us.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.

Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.

A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.

I'm the lamest lame duck there could be.

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open, and robbed of all that is precious to them.

Lame Duck Alley

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

As you would expect when individualism is based only on opportunity, no one asks what happens to those who have neither the financial nor the political clout to exercise their tiny portion of that opportunity.

They don’t hate the West because of any specific policy or action like Israel or Iraq. They just hate because they have been unsuccessful; they feel that they’ve been denied their rightful place in life.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe--responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

The poor have neither the income nor political power to hold anyone accountable for meeting their needs- they are political and economic orphans.

American government has seemed to mean naught but impotence and unavailing words.

Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.

I felt certain that the secrets of Washington would quickly become known and that our nation would be swept with moral indignation and revulsion when Americans saw exposed to the light of day even a small part of the foul record of the diseased creature that had squatted in the White House for so many years, surrounded by his appalling gang of degenerates, traitors, and alien subversives

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

There are people who are victims in life, and I don't think they should be encouraged.

Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.

Poverty is a result of lack of opportunity. Lack of opportunity is about being without power, without being in a position to make choices.

It is my conviction that becoming economically and socially vulnerable puts you at the mercy of people surrounding you. It is as if you no longer exist as a human being and are no longer worthy of respect.