Quotes from Judy Woodruff

He [Vaclav Havel] did love music. And so much about the Czech revolution was about music.

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

I've never seen Washington as divided as we are right now.

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

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.

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.

I have no doubt about it. I think this is a part of the nature of man, a desire for freedom, for dignified life.

There have been trade-offs every day, every month, every year. There's a lot that I missed and I do have regrets in that area. But I have been able to bring to my family the richness of being a journalist.

Vaclav Havel had this great sense of humor. And you kind of felt that he was making a little bit fun of everything at the same time.

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.

Every news organization should ideally be as broadly representative as possible.

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

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

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

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

I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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