Juan Williams famous quotes

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.
-- Juan Williams

#Thinking #People #Firsts

There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation.
-- Juan Williams

#Differences #Insult #Conversation

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.
-- Juan Williams

#Children #Mean #Men

If you're a black kid, you're going to have hell in your life.
-- Juan Williams

#Kids #Black #Hell

In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.
-- Juan Williams

#Light #White #America

American people are a little tired of anybody saying, let's get back in war. Why don't we go back (inaudible).
-- Juan Williams

#War #Tired #People

I think you know what? You've got to believe in yourself. You can do it.
-- Juan Williams

#Believe #Thinking #You Can Do It

You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict
-- Juan Williams

#War #People #Dying

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.
-- Juan Williams

#Couple #Stress #Keys

Sons love moms forevermore.
-- Juan Williams

#Mom #Son #Love Mom

My wife and I, Delice and I, are empty nesters.
-- Juan Williams

#Wife #Empty #My Wife

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.
-- Juan Williams

#Gun #Race #Law

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.
-- Juan Williams

#College #Florida #Presidential

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.
-- Juan Williams

#Hurt #Real #People

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.
-- Juan Williams

#Wings #Npr #Orthodoxy

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.
-- Juan Williams

#Christian #Military #Gay

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.
-- Juan Williams

#Wings #People #Political

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.
-- Juan Williams

#Running #Party #Independent

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.
-- Juan Williams

#Book #Cutting #Effort

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.
-- Juan Williams

#Running #Years #President

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.
-- Juan Williams

#Jobs #Wall #President

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.
-- Juan Williams

#Winning #Presidential #Political

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.
-- Juan Williams

#Father #Party #Garden

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.
-- Juan Williams

#Cities #White #People

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.
-- Juan Williams

#Airplane #Npr #Yesterday

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.
-- Juan Williams

#Talking #Sound #Limited Time

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.
-- Juan Williams

#Believe #Struggle #Mean

I am not a conservative but I have spoken out for years against the staggering amount of 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.
-- Juan Williams

#Education #Uncles #Race

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.
-- Juan Williams

#Hurt #Keys #Upset

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.
-- Juan Williams

#Country #War #Political

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.
-- Juan Williams

#Nfl #Political #Lice

There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades.
-- Juan Williams

#President #Levels #President Obama

There is absolutely zero chance that ObamaCare will be repealed while Democrats control the Senate and President Obama is in the White House.
-- Juan Williams

#Zero #White #Obamacare

The Republicans want to turn Medicare into a voucher plan that will end guaranteed coverage of medical bills for the elderly.
-- Juan Williams

#Elderly #Want #Bills

Teddy Kennedy rose to become a liberal lion by collaborating with Republicans.
-- Juan Williams

#Rose #Lions #Republican

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?
-- Juan Williams

#New York #Thinking #People

As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.
-- Juan Williams

#Gun #Keys #Political

Alaska and Montana are not in the south but they definitely form part of the crimson tide of red states where Republicans are dominant.
-- Juan Williams

#Alaska #Red #Tides

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.
-- Juan Williams

#Teacher #Children #Block

Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns.
-- Juan Williams

#Heart #Gun #White

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.
-- Juan Williams

#Dog #Moving #Wagons

Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.
-- Juan Williams

#Fighting #Agendas #Immigration

Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.
-- Juan Williams

#Radio #Translate #Universe

Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.
-- Juan Williams

#Slavery #Defeat #Teach

Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.
-- Juan Williams

#Gun #Cities #Violence

Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office.
-- Juan Williams

#Party #Office #Political

I'm not a predictable black liberal.
-- Juan Williams

#Black #Predictable

In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.
-- Juan Williams

#Ideas #Effort #President

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.
-- Juan Williams

#Race #Differences #Vote

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.'
-- Juan Williams

#Hypocrite #Keys #Npr

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.
-- Juan Williams

#Teacher #School #Winning