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" There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades. "
Juan Williams
Decades
Corporate
Levels
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" Cable would not translate into the public radio universe. "
Juan Williams
Would
Public
Radio
" 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
" 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
Always
Someone
" 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
" 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
" 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
Rights
Gay
Military
" Where is the civil rights groundswell on behalf of stronger marriages that will allow more children to grow up in two-parent families and have a better chance of staying out of poverty? "
Juan Williams
Grow
Poverty
Children
" When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the like, as a result of Obama's efforts - TARP, the stimulus package, and now the health care reform - there is a lot of sense this government is changing. "
Juan Williams
You
Health
Look
" 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
" 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
" 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
I Am
People
Truth
" Yes, agriculture subsidies are far too generous. They need to be reined in because they cater to special interests while distorting free market competition. Yes, the farm laws are an anachronistic mess. "
Juan Williams
Competition
Free
Agriculture
" 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
View
Friend
Champion
" I'm not a predictable black liberal. "
Juan Williams
Black
Predictable
Liberal
" 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
100 Years
Years
Run
" Where are the exhortations for children to reject the self-defeating stereotypes that reduce black people to violent, oversexed 'gangstas,' minstrel show comedians and mindless athletes? "
Juan Williams
Children
Stereotypes
Black
" Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery. "
Juan Williams
Slavery
Defeat
Teach
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform. "
Juan Williams
Agenda
Immigration
Budget
" 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
" 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
Street
Economy
Equal
" I think the idea of fact-checking, I think the idea that you come up through a system where you know how to cover night cops, and then you go on, and you go on to various beats, including writing obituaries, and you get names right, you know how to spell them, really has some advantages to it. "
Juan Williams
You
Spell
Know
" 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
Democrats
House
Chance
" 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
" 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
Vote
Difference
" Even after they fired me, called me a bigot and publicly advised me to only share my thoughts with a psychiatrist, I did not call for defunding NPR. I am a journalist, and NPR is an important platform for journalism. "
Juan Williams
I Am
Thoughts
Journalism
" 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
Black
Voting
Vote
" 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