It's funny, everywhere I go some people ask me whether it's going to be a Latino breakthrough, some people ask me whether it's going to be a female breakthrough, and then I'm reminded that five years ago we didn't even… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
I'm not quite certain how you can force a candidate to stick by the rules. — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
I'm not in love. I'm not out of love. I'm just trying to find some version of the truth. — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not. — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
If you take the conflicts we are used to dealing with, race over the years in America, and you combine that with the desire… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
In the media universe we're in, where there are people screaming on one end, there is no problem at all with having a little… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This is a precarious race straddle that most members of the breakthrough generation seem to reject. Even the most well meaning white Obama supporters seem to take deep satisfaction in this idea. Obama, they insisted, could be raceless, a… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share
I actually think agendas are more often found in State of the Union speeches than in inaugural speeches. — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods. — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
There's five factors or characteristics of places where kids from poor backgrounds don't do very well. And those are places that have more economic… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
I knew early on that I wanted to be a reporter, but I didn't know I was a political journalist until my first job… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
I don't think that Donald Trump represents the traditional Republican values and heritage of my party. That's one reason that I don't support him. The Republican Party has always revered the individual. We led the way in abolishing slavery, for example, and we recognize the dignity and worth of every human being. it is clear that Donald Trump, by his… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share
