Judy Woodruff famous quotes

There are many things we can live without but a sense of humor is not one of them!
-- Judy Woodruff

#Sense Of Humor

People want jobs, but nobody has a recipe for how to get them. And so they are trying different things.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Jobs #People #Trying

But I want to pay tribute to Anna Lee Woodruff, an extraordinary, selfless woman and beautiful grandmother who in her quiet determined way was a role model for her two daughters, and who left a lasting impression on so many who knew her.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Beautiful #Mother #Daughter

CD4 being the level of the lymphocyte that indicates the level of your immune function.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Levels #Function

You may not realize it, but artificial intelligence is all around us.
-- Judy Woodruff

#May #Realizing #Artificial Intelligence

A.I. poses a potential threat more dangerous than nuclear weapons.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Nuclear #Weapons #Dangerous

The field of artificial intelligence is pushing new boundaries.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Fields #Pushing #Boundaries

I think there's a fundamental moral issue about whether it's right for a machine to decide to kill a person. It's bad enough that people are deciding to kill people, but at least they have perhaps some moral argument that they're doing it to ultimately defend their families or prevent some greater evil.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Thinking #Issues #People

One of the main things we have been looking at is, how can we get a robot to think about situations it's never seen before?
-- Judy Woodruff

#Thinking #Robots #Situation

Machines are on track to be on par with human intelligence in less than 15 years.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Years #Track #Machines

The primary implication is that we're going to combine our intelligence with computers. We're going to make ourselves smarter. By the 2030s, they will literally go inside our bodies and inside our brains.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Brain #Body #Computer

From one perspective, we're in the early stage in artificial intelligence, but exponentials start out slowly, and then they take off.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Perspective #Stage #Artificial Intelligence

A definitive decision to say you should start people on therapy as soon as you know they're infected.
-- Judy Woodruff

#People #Decision #Should

There's no embassy for the United States in Iran. So, Iranians process those in other countries.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Country #Iran #United States

Historically, when times are bad, voters, especially in the Industrial Midwest, have turned to the Democrats.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Midwest #Voters #Democrat

In 2008, the Democrats made a great effort among African-American voters, and they did increase their turnout considerably, and among Latino voters.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Effort #African American #Voters

I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the firehouse or the school and they vote at the same time.
-- Judy Woodruff

#School #Thinking #People

I think it's important that campaigns be aired all the way through, that people aren't voting three weeks before, before debates are held.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Thinking #People #Voting

Now it's become sort of a - you know, just sort of a casual thing, and you can vote any time at all. It doesn't increase turnout. It hasn't increased turnout, really. And I don't think it's a healthy development. I sound like an old fogey here.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Thinking #Healthy #Sound

Election Day now has become the last day to vote.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Lasts #Election #Vote

Senate races are different from House races, in the sense that they are more candidate-driven. The higher the office - that is, I mean, governor, senator, president - the more important the candidate.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Mean #Race #Office

AFSCME stands for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.
-- Judy Woodruff

#States #Employee #County

I think we have reached such saturation levels, the money at this point doesn't swing election.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Thinking #Swings #Levels

My job is to try and bring attention to places that don't have it
-- Judy Woodruff

#Jobs #Trying #Attention

When I think of grass I think of something to walk on, pot as something to put a plant in.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Thinking #Pot #Plant

My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Teaching #School #Years

My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Mother #Children #Parent

If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Government #People #Enough Time

For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Past #Media #Years

As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Mother #Eye #Son

We decided to focus on women because no one was singling them out.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Women #Focus

And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Careers #Long #Political

Some days you feel like you've had the greatest ego massage, then the next day you've been trampled on.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Ego #Next #Massage

Girl Scouts offered a wonderful group of girls where common concerns and interests could come together. We could learn, be challenged, and support one another. It was a very positive aspect of my life and played an important role in shaping who I am today.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Girl #Who I Am #Support

Politics is in my blood. I'd love to be involved in 2008, maybe even '06.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Blood

It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Long #Outcomes #Way

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.
-- Judy Woodruff

#War #Presidential #Victory

Is this administration, the Clinton administration, an administration that needed defending?
-- Judy Woodruff

#Administration #Clinton #Needed

Every news organization should ideally be as broadly representative as possible.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Organization #News #Should

Americans tend not to be too enthusiastic about having their taxes raised again....But if the American people aren't going to accept it, if the politicians don't have the courage to raise taxes, what are we facing down the road?
-- Judy Woodruff

#People #Politician #Accepting

You can find inspiration when you're not even looking for it.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Inspiration

He was a lifelong Republican, but over the years, Harry Blackmun built a reputation as a liberal, sometimes defiant Justice, whose fierce protection of individual rights led some to anoint him the moral conscience of the court.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Years #Rights #Justice

As the mother of a grown son with a traumatic brain injury, I couldn't be more excited about the prospect of finding out how to repair even a small part of the damage that changed his life.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Mother #Son #Brain