Gwen Ifill Quotes

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.

I've played journalists before, and I have good friends who are journalists. I think being an actor is not very far from being a journalist. Because you investigate, you try to understand, you're asking questions, you're interested in the other.

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

I wanted to be a journalist because I like to ask questions. And I like the idea that someone might feel responsible for answering them.

I investigate more directly. I tend to ask a lot of questions and don't feel satisfied until I have the answer.

My job is to ask tough questions.

Great questions make great reporting.

Science is always inquiring.

I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.

I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable.

Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.

I'm a reporter by nature, I want to know everything.

I know we journalists have a reputation for being cynics. We do. It's our job to question - everything.

Science is about questioning things.

I am an old journalist, so I always do a lot of research and dive deep into people's character, who they are, and their motivation.

There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.

What are the questions you wish to ask?

I'm just quizzical about how things work and why things are.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.