Top 59 Juan Williams Quotes
#1. Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.
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#2. 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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#3. For me, the key is I always have to be the same person. If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.'
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#4. I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.
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#5. Every American president must be held to the highest standard. No president of any color should be given a free pass for screw-ups, lies or failure to keep a promise.
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#6. The Republicans want to turn Medicare into a voucher plan that will end guaranteed coverage of medical bills for the elderly.
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#7. 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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#8. When I'm on TV, I'm often talking to a conservative host. I may have another conservative arguing with me. You've got very limited time, and you're using 'sound-bite' type language.
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#9. Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.
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#10. 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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#12. I think you know what? You've got to believe in yourself. You can do it.
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#13. The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws.
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#14. American people are a little tired of anybody saying, let's get back in war. Why don't we go back (inaudible).
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#15. Alaska and Montana are not in the south but they definitely form part of the crimson tide of red states where Republicans are dominant.
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#17. Where is the civil rights groundswell on behalf of stronger marriages that will allow more children to grow up in two-parent families and have a better chance of staying out of poverty?
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#18. Where are the exhortations for children to reject the self-defeating stereotypes that reduce black people to violent, oversexed 'gangstas,' minstrel show comedians and mindless athletes?
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#19. If you're a black kid, you're going to have hell in your life.
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#20. There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades.
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#21. My wife and I, Delice and I, are empty nesters.
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#22. Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.
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#23. There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation.
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#24. The Democrats thought that Hillary Clinton is too aggressive and too much into regime change.
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#25. Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns.
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#26. 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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#27. In the last 100 years only Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford lost their bids for reelection. President Lyndon Johnson did not run for a second term.
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#28. 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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#29. Though President Obama promised during the 2008 campaign to pass the DREAM Act, he never made it a priority and failed to bring Republicans and Democrats together to do it in his first term.
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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office.
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#34. 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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#35. Ann Romney ... looked to me like a corporate wife. The stories she told about struggles - eh! It's hard for me to believe. I mean, she's a very rich woman, and I know that, and America knows that.
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#36. 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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#37. You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict
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#38. Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.
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#39. 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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#40. 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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#41. 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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#42. [Barack] Obama administration looking at taking a more aggressive stance and some of the Arab countries coming together.
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#43. 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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#44. The truth is that you - people are doing scientific research with fetal tissue and it's not as if - no, this is brand-new news. This is something funded by.
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#45. 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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#46. In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.
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#47. I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant,and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing the Left.
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#48. In 2008, when the real estate market blew up, it principally hurt older people who saw the value of their houses go down, along with their pension plans.
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#49. The factual reality is that the vast majority of immigrants - legal and illegal - contribute more to this country than they take out in social services.
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#50. 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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#51. In 2008, Obama won 56 percent of the women's vote to John McCain's 43 percent. It was the critical difference in the race.
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#52. I think that you have a situation where one political party, in specific, if you watched the Republican debate, it's all about terrorism.
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#53. When it comes to serious cuts to major programs like Medicaid, the American people are not calling for leadership but magic. They want cuts with no pain.
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#54. Teddy Kennedy rose to become a liberal lion by collaborating with Republicans.
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#55. There is absolutely zero chance that ObamaCare will be repealed while Democrats control the Senate and President Obama is in the White House.
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#56. Republicans believed that their job was not governing but blocking any idea coming from President Obama and the Democrats, and wiping out Democrats in the 2012 election.
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#57. When I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.
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#58. As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.
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#59. In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.
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