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" Cable would not translate into the public radio universe. "
Juan Williams
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" 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
Politics
Work
Government
" 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 Control
Race
Support
" Teddy Kennedy rose to become a liberal lion by collaborating with Republicans. "
Juan Williams
Lion
Teddy
Become
" 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
I Am
Airplane
People
" Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery. "
Juan Williams
Slavery
Defeat
Teach
" 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
Race
Death
Power
" 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. "
Juan Williams
Result
Business
Dollar
" 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
Party
Swing
Tea
" 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. "
Juan Williams
Immigrants
Reality
Out
" 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. "
Juan Williams
President
Democrats
Election
" 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
Language
You
Time
" In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security. "
Juan Williams
System
Security
Immigration
" 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. "
Juan Williams
Success
American
History
" There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades. "
Juan Williams
Decades
Corporate
Levels
" 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?' "
Juan Williams
Thinking
People
Know
" 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
Community
Daily
Face
" 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
See
Think
You
" Years ago, NPR tried to stop me from going on "The Factor." When I refused, they insisted that I not identify myself as an NPR journalist. I asked them if they thought people did not know where I appeared on the air as a daily talk show host, national correspondent and news analyst. They refused to budge. "
Juan Williams
Daily
Know
Thought
" 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
Woman
Rich
Wife
" 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
Internet
Political
Money
" 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
Dominant
Tide
Red
" 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. "
Juan Williams
Want
American
Leadership
" 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
Political
Free
Honest
" I'm not a predictable black liberal. "
Juan Williams
Black
Predictable
Liberal
" 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
Care
Health
Losing
" 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
Support
Win
" If his presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like everyone else - fully human and fully capable of intellect, courage and patriotism - then Barack Obama has to be subject to the same rough and tumble of political criticism experienced by his predecessors. "
Juan Williams
Patriotism
Power
Political
" 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
Legacy
Control
Gun
" NPR editors and journalists found themselves caught in a game of trying to please a leadership team who did not want to hear stories on the air about conservatives, the poor, or anyone who didn't fit their profitable design of NPR as the official voice of college-educated, white, liberal-leaning, upper-income America. "
Juan Williams
Team
Game
America
" The Republicans want to turn Medicare into a voucher plan that will end guaranteed coverage of medical bills for the elderly. "
Juan Williams
Medical
End
Will