Quotes by Juan Williams - Page 2

Americans have a lower opinion of Congress than they do of the NFL replacement refs, head lice, traffic jams, cockroaches and even the group to which yours truly belongs - Washington political pundits.
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Cockroaches
Jam
Lice
Nfl
Political
Pundits
Traffic
Belongs
Replacement
Yours
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While Planned Parenthood provides abortions at some of their clinics, it also provides healthcare services for poor women, including checkups, mammograms, cervical cancer screenings and contraceptives.
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Abortion
Cancer
Healthcare
Including
Mammograms
Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
Clinics
Planned
Services
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Yes, agriculture subsidies are far too generous. They need to be reined in because they cater to special interests while distorting free market competition. Yes, the farm laws are an anachronistic mess.
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Free Market
Generous
Mess
Special Interests
Subsidies
Cater
Distorting
Farm
Interests
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President Obama's proposal to raise the top rate to 39 percent is equal to the rate under President Clinton in the 1990s when Wall Street reached record high levels and the economy produced lots of jobs.
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Jobs
Clinton
Equal
Levels
President
President Clinton
Proposal
Rate
Records
Wall
Produced
Raise
Wall Street
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Republicans get a lot of money from big business, but they are not tied to the union dollar. As a result they have been aggressive advocates of school reform, charter schools and vouchers for private schools.
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Aggressive
Big Business
Charter
Charter Schools
Tied
Vouchers
Advocate
Dollar
Republicans
Private Schools
Union
Schools
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The people we want in our news prime-time space now are strongly opinionated people who I think, for the most part, attract audiences of like-minded people, who want to know 'what's our side thinking right now?'
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Opinionated
Attract
Strongly
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If you get the U.N. to say we're going to solve the Syrian problem, if you get the Russians involved in a productive posture, you are making progress, but the Republican core says no strategy or failed strategy.
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Problem
Progress
Republican
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Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.
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Absent
Cities
Fraud
Hispanic
Protected
Rich Or Poor
Rural Areas
Vote
Voting
White
All Americans
Big City
Constitutional
Constitutional Right
Remote
Rural
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Even after they fired me, called me a bigot and publicly advised me to only share my thoughts with a psychiatrist, I did not call for defunding NPR. I am a journalist, and NPR is an important platform for journalism.
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Journalism
Npr
Advised
Thoughts I Am Me
Bigot
Fired
Platform
Publicly
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I pointed out that the Atlanta Olympic bomber - as well as Timothy McVeigh and the people who protest against gay rights at military funerals - are Christians but we journalists don't identify them by their religion.
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Atlanta
Christian
Gay
Gay Rights
Military
Bomber
Christians
Funerals
Identify
Journalists
Olympic
Pointed
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If Mitt Romney defeats President Obama in his bid for reelection on Tuesday, it will mark the success of one of the most deeply cynical political campaigns in American history. It is hard to beat an incumbent no matter the economic climate.
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American History
Campaigns
Climate
Cynical
President Obama
Romney
Tuesday
Beat
Bid
Deeply
Incumbent
Mitt
Mitt Romney
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The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don't think he'll raise it out of the New York people, I don't think he's going to raise it out the Hollywood people, so where's the money going to come from for Barack Obama?
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New York
Money
Barack
Thinking
Obama
Barack Obama
Hollywood People
Raise
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When you hear someone delivering a divisive message, that's endangering our country that you stay up and say, you know, as an American, I do not think what you're saying is good and right. And if you do in a peaceful manner, you have every right.
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Country
Peaceful
Thinking
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President Obama and Secretary Duncan have made stronger teacher evaluation a key part of their education reform efforts. Under their signature plan, called 'Race to the Top,' states can win federal support for schools by improving teacher evaluations.
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Teacher
Education Reform
Evaluation
Improving
President Obama
School
Secretary
Stronger
Winning
Obama
Efforts
Plan
Schools
Signature
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The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.
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War
Buried
Collateral
Conversation
Correctness
Country
Critical
Damage
Honest
Ideological
Importance
Journalism
Needs
Orthodoxy
Political
Political Correctness
Respectful
Free
Battles
Flowing
Include
National
Whose
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When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the like, as a result of Obama's efforts - TARP, the stimulus package, and now the health care reform - there is a lot of sense this government is changing.
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Activism
Health Care
Health Care Reform
Reform
Stimulus
Tarp
Tea Party
Obama
Changing
Efforts
Package
Stimulus Package
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I think the idea of fact-checking, I think the idea that you come up through a system where you know how to cover night cops, and then you go on, and you go on to various beats, including writing obituaries, and you get names right, you know how to spell them, really has some advantages to it.
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Beats
Including
Advantages
Cops
Cover
Obituaries
Spell
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If you think about conservative ideas, conservative principles, the fact that Donald Trump goes back at George W. Bush over weapons of mass destruction or gets into fights with the pope, and there's no outreach in terms of growth of the party. I think lots of people fear for the future of the party.
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Fighting
Party
Thinking
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In other words, United States, our values, the way that we occupy ourselves in terms of saying here's the way we stand in this country when we go to war, it's not that we go in and we kill off anybody, including families. We don't take the riches. We don't claim the women. My God, that's not America.
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War
America
Country
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If his presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like everyone else - fully human and fully capable of intellect, courage and patriotism - then Barack Obama has to be subject to the same rough and tumble of political criticism experienced by his predecessors.
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Courage
Patriotism
Barack
Capable
Criticism
Intellect
Predecessors
Presidency
Rough
Barack Obama
Black Americans
Everyone Else
Experienced
Fully
Tumble
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I think, when you see kind of dysfunction among the Democrats of the Republicans, it impacts the whole country: the way we feel about each other, our ability to speak as one. And in this case, I think there are lots of Republicans who are worried about, does Donald Trump really represent conservatism?
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Country
Kind
Thinking
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Democrats cannot win elections without capturing the votes of independent-minded swing voters. And that is where writing off the Tea Party as a bunch of racist kooks becomes self-destructive. The Tea Party outrage over health-care reform, deficit spending and entitlements run amok is no fringe concern.
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Running
Bunch
Concern
Deficit
Deficit Spending
Entitlement
Fringe
Independent
Outrage
Party
Self Destructive
Spending
Tea Party
Voters
Capturing
Elections
Swing
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The power of the silent filibuster to distort Senate politics is now accepted on Capitol Hill and by the press as normal and not worth mentioning. Let me be the skunk at this political garden party and say this stinks. Representative government was not designed to work this way by the Founding Fathers.
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Accepted
Capitol
Capitol Hill
Father
Filibuster
Founding
Garden
Party
Senate
Silent
Designed
Distort
Fathers
Founding Fathers
Press
Representative
Skunk
Stinks
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Years ago, NPR tried to stop me from going on "The Factor." When I refused, they insisted that I not identify myself as an NPR journalist. I asked them if they thought people did not know where I appeared on the air as a daily talk show host, national correspondent and news analyst. They refused to budge.
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Air
Host
Journalist
News
Npr
Years Ago
Myself Me People
Analyst
Appeared
Asked
Correspondent
Daily
Factor
Identify
Insisted
Refused
Talk Show
Talk Show Host
Tried
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NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.
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Airplane
Npr
Telling The Truth
Terrorist
Truth Is
Truth I Am Me
Attacks
Bigoted
Truth Me I Am
Dressed
Fears
Fired
Foremost
Muslims
Statement
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Want to know the key to a long-lasting relationship? Don't go with your loved one to Ikea. One psychologist says the stress of a visit to the popular furniture store can cause serious friction between couples, whether it's disputes over what to buy or spats while you assemble the items that you bought there.
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Couple
Ikea
Stress
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I think the president's [Barack Obama] position has been very clear on Syria. He wants more aggressive, he's put the Special Ops on the ground, in fact one of the Republican criticisms is he's got thousands of Americans there. We just don't call them troops on the ground, we don't admit to it. But they are there.
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Criticism
Special
Thinking
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NPR editors and journalists found themselves caught in a game of trying to please a leadership team who did not want to hear stories on the air about conservatives, the poor, or anyone who didn't fit their profitable design of NPR as the official voice of college-educated, white, liberal-leaning, upper-income America.
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Caught
Editors
Npr
Please
Profitable
Conservatives
Journalists
Official
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Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.
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Airplane
Npr
Radical
Telling The Truth
Terrorist
Truth Is
Worry
Yesterday
Truth I Am Me
Attacks
Bigoted
Truth Me I Am
Dressed
Fears
Fired
Foremost
Muslims
Statement
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As the 2012 elections approach the finish line, the chatter among columnists and political reporters is about upcoming books that take readers inside the campaigns, cutting-edge efforts to micro-target voters on Internet social applications, the enormous money flowing through super-PACs, and extreme political polarization.
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Book
Campaigns
Chatter
Cutting
Effort
Enormous
Finish Line
Polarization
Reporters
Voters
Extreme
Applications
Elections
Efforts
Finish
Readers
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The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.
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Classic
Election
Polarization
Political
Presidency
Presidential
Strategy
Winning
Extreme
Campaign
Candidate
Distorting
Nationwide
Reminder
Talks
Votes
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Murders with guns are the No. 1 cause of death for African-American men between the ages of 15 and 34. But talking about race in the context of guns would also mean taking on a subject that can't be addressed by passing a law: the family-breakdown issues that lead too many minority children to find social status and power in guns.
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African American
Children
Gun
Mean
Passing
Ages
Guns
Context
Minority
Status
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In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history.
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College
Court
Doomed
Election
Electoral College
Florida
Gore
Happened
Loses
Odd
Pivotal
Presidential
Presidential Election
Ruling
Supreme
Three
Worst Case Scenario
Al
Al Gore
Bush
Candidate
State
Gave
George
George W
George W. Bush
Lose
Scenario
Votes
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For the first time since 2007 there is political momentum behind fixing the immigration system. President Obama in his State of the Union speech reached out to the right-wing by saying illegal immigrants seeking citizenship will have to pay taxes, learn English and get in line behind people who are trying to enter the United States legally.
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Fixing
Illegal
Illegal Immigrants
Immigrants
Momentum
President Obama
Right Wing
Seeking
Time Political People
Legally
Union
Reached
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And there is no getting away from the fact - and this is a key point of discontent among many who are upset with the health care reform bill is it didn't go far enough. They say why isn't it in place now? Why don't I see some benefits now? All I see is the potential for losing insurance coverage, for premiums going up. That's hurting Obama.
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Benefits
Coverage
Discontent
Health Care
Health Care Reform
Hurt
Keys
Losing
Upset
Obama
Bill
Hurting
Insurance
Insurance Coverage
Reform Bill
They Say
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For the first time since 2007 there is political momentum behind fixing the immigration system. President Obama in his State of the Union speech reached out to the right-wing by saying illegal immigrants seeking citizenship will have to pay taxes, learn English and get in line behind people who are trying to enter the United States. legally.
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People
Political
Wings
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The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as their friend, much less their champion. They view them as corrupt, intransigent and more interested in protecting their political clout within the Democratic Party than protecting their members or even school children.
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Teacher
Block
Champion
Children
Clout
Damage
Democratic
Democratic Party
Members
Reform
Views
Teachers
Corrupt
Brand
Union
Protecting
School Children
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The FBI found Hillary Clinton to be extremely careless with classified information on her non-secured private e-mail server. While secretary of state. In addition to all we've been talking about, we're learning that Clinton actually lectured her own staff about the importance of cyber security back in 2010, telling them to do one thing while she herself was doing another thing.
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Clinton
Importance
Server
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I am not a conservative but I have spoken out for years against the staggering amount blind hatred directed at black conservatives by liberals. Liberals are shockingly quick to demean and dismiss brilliant black people like Rice, Carson, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Professor Walter E. Williams and economist Thomas Sowell because they don't fit into the role they have carved out for a black person in America. Black Americans must be obedient liberals on all things or risk being called a race traitor or an Uncle Tom.
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Education
Uncles
America
Race
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