Judy Woodruff Quotes

I don't know if anybody can second-guess what they will do on Capitol Hill.

Politics, you will observe, is the science of guessing right.

I think that we'd be very wise not to predict anything with Donald Trump.

A week is a long time in politics.

People who work for the Donald Trump admonistration do not know from day to day whether there job is there or what it is.

You know, what's interesting about Washington...It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second-nature.

I don't know what would happen in a Trump administration, as far as how he would behave.

I have no idea what's going to happen with America in the future.

No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.

A week is a long time in politics. A month is an eternity.

Politics is pretty much an up and down business

That’s the lesson of politics. Go with your gut. You don’t know what is going to happen.

You can never predict what problems a President will face.

If there is a constant to the American campaign story, it is that elites can’t predict the future very well. News is what surprises us, which is why the political press always has news. Voters are always undoing our certainties.

I'll tell you what: Everything about the Trump administration is scary.

Punditry is like weather forecasting: the winds can shift without warning. I remember when nobody would bet a McDonald's Quarter Pounder that Bill Clinton would win the White House.

Politics is not a laboratory experiment where you can control everything. You have to take calls even when you feel that matters may spin out of your hand.

There's never been a time in my life where you had the names the United States and political uncertainty in the same sentence.

To be completely honest, I don't believe that Palin has any intention of actually running for president. Granted, trying to predict Sarah Palin's next move is like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall.

Certainty in politics is never a given.

Foreseeing the future is always difficult.

No one can predict the future.

Trying to predict the future is a loser's game.

I don't know much about politics, but you have to look at it with the bigger picture and think what's best for us now, what's best for us in 10 years' time, what's best for our kids' kids' future - and I don't know.

I've always said I would never say never when it comes to politics.