Alex Wagner

To be counted in the census is to be both seen and supported.

— Alex Wagner

My goal is to show the intermingling between politics and pop culture.

— Alex Wagner

Sometimes a young person is so intent on proving themselves that they don't actually listen to people who know things.

— Alex Wagner

Network reporters dont go to the field anymore. The local news has been gutted.

— Alex Wagner

There are videos I used to take at home, pretending to be a newscaster, interviewing the teapot or my house cat.

— Alex Wagner

In my off hours, I'm definitely not a product-driven person. I've always thought less was more.

— Alex Wagner

I read the 'New York Times' every day and I would do that even if I didn't need to do it for…

— Alex Wagner

Fox Newss unique blend of xenophobia and division has always been popular and highly lucrative.

— Alex Wagner

The other piece about tracing your ancestry is it makes you slightly more empathetic about what happens today. As we seem to…

— Alex Wagner

My father's family didn't really know much about our ancestry. I mean, they had the story that I think a lot of…

— Alex Wagner

What is nearly certain is that Donald Trump did not consider himself a feminist in the way-back 80s, nor was he making…

— Alex Wagner

I have a cat that I'm obsessed with. His name is Rooster and he's an orange Bengal. He is one of America's…

— Alex Wagner

That's sort of part of the American ethic - is not to worry too much about the past and that it shouldn't…

— Alex Wagner

But then I realized, I think maybe we're too preoccupied with the past and too preoccupied with the idea that nationalism and…

— Alex Wagner

Politicians dont expect the argument of the day to infiltrate restaurants, but of course they do, because were all human beings.

— Alex Wagner

The general trend in television is to be more transparent, and that is especially true for women: to not pretend that we…

— Alex Wagner

I wanted to know who my people were. And I - I think like a lot of Americans - thought that I…

— Alex Wagner

Whether were eating tacos at a roadside stand outside of Houston, or having barbecue somewhere down south, or beautiful fried eggs in…

— Alex Wagner

There has always been a thawing-out-of-something-frozen quality to a potential Joe Biden candidacy, an understanding that the man himself might be out…

— Alex Wagner

There's a lot of 'ancestor tourism': and people will go back to Ireland to touch ground and have a pint in the…

— Alex Wagner

The higher you climb in the media, the issue is being good to other women. I've been fortunate to have a few…

— Alex Wagner

Census data is used to determine more than $675 billion in federal funding; it is a demographic Rosetta Stone that is referenced…

— Alex Wagner

My career has definitely zigzagged, and that is euphemistic.

— Alex Wagner

As a former music magazine editor, I still pine for the days when I used to know about all the best jams…

— Alex Wagner

To be white in President Trumps America is to fundamentally belong.

— Alex Wagner

A generation has witnessed the fight for racial justice from the front lines: Asian Americans have been paying attention, and they are…

— Alex Wagner

It's not fun telling people they have to turn their stories in. But you can't actually have a creative work environment if…

— Alex Wagner

When my mother finally arrived in America in the late 1960s, she attended Swarthmore College and majored in political science.

— Alex Wagner

Nobody has proved quite as adept as laughing at himself as former President George W. Bush, who willingly conceded to being a…

— Alex Wagner

When I had my first son, in 2017, we decided to give him a Burmese middle name. I picked Mindon, after the…

— Alex Wagner

Magazines can be kind of brutal, and independent magazines especially are really hard, and it takes work for it to feel like…

— Alex Wagner

Almost no one I came across said they were going to vote because someone, anyone, but especially Joe Biden, had made their…

— Alex Wagner

I had - in my early 20s and late teens, I had adopted this idea that I was the future face. And…

— Alex Wagner

Today I was trying to eat a beignet on camera. You cant do that. You cant even eat a beignet on a…

— Alex Wagner

We hear stories from our parents and our grandparents about what life was like in the old country or wherever they came…

— Alex Wagner

The biggest reveal was that a lot of these DNA test companies, they're commercial enterprises, right? So they basically purchase or acquire…

— Alex Wagner

Humor borne out of cruelty happens to be the easiest and therefore lowest form of comedy: It is cheap stuff and it…

— Alex Wagner

I don't know what other people think about me being the boss, but I really like a collaborative work environment, and I…

— Alex Wagner

This would seem to be a truism in contemporary American politics: The electorate opts for serious leaders, but almost always men who…

— Alex Wagner

Undocumented residents and even green-card holders may fear that filling out the census could put them at risk of deportation and decide…

— Alex Wagner