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Judy Woodruff
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: November 20
Journalist
News Anchor
News Presenter
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Judy Carline Woodruff
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The heyday perhaps of American public infrastructure is the Sputnik moment of the 1950s, the [Dwaight] Eisenhower administration, for instance, which rolls out the modern interstate system. The highway system of the United States is built during this period.
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You can find inspiration when you're not even looking for it.
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What we do have is a gigantic matching tax-cutting program as a way of stimulating the economy.
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Now it's become sort of a - you know, just sort of a casual thing, and you can vote any time at all. It doesn't increase turnout. It hasn't increased turnout, really. And I don't think it's a healthy development. I sound like an old fogey here.
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Election Day now has become the last day to vote.
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In 2008, the Democrats made a great effort among African-American voters, and they did increase their turnout considerably, and among Latino voters.
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Historically, when times are bad, voters, especially in the Industrial Midwest, have turned to the Democrats.
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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.
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They have two aspects. One is that they're unpredictable, and that often rich and more affluent households are slow to spend the funds. The other thing about tax cuts is that they're redistributive. So they tend, naturally, to benefit those who pay tax.
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Senate races are different from House races, in the sense that they are more candidate-driven. The higher the office - that is, I mean, governor, senator, president - the more important the candidate.
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A.I. poses a potential threat more dangerous than nuclear weapons.
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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.
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I don't think anyone is closer to the voters in Washington than members of the House of Representatives.
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Some days you feel like you've had the greatest ego massage, then the next day you've been trampled on.
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That was an exception within the [Barack] Obama administration's economic policy, a crisis that he inherited from the previous administration, and felt it was essential to carry through on.
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People put on their earphones, they lay out their phones, they put - open up their computers, and they convince themselves that they're most productive when they're focused on their e-mail, when, really, they're ignoring the cafeteria, the watercooler, the meetings with colleagues, the times when really the creativity, collaboration happens.
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Our phones do play to our natural nervousness about being vulnerable to each other, but that doesn't mean that we can't we can't pull ourselves together, and say - we need to talk to each because it's in conversation, the most human and humanizing thing that we do, that empathy is born, that intimacy is born, that relationship is born.
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I see a bit of a contradiction between the fight against the Islamic State and the desire to remove the Assad regime. And even if you work with Russia, I'm just not sold that working with Russia is an effective way to hasten the end of the Assad regime or to enact any type of punitive measures.
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The vast majority of Americans are employed in service sector industries, and many of those sectors are highly internationalized. The most high-value added sectors, notably the tech sector, is massively globalized. And, for them, it would be a disaster if America's trade policy was to go down a spiraling route towards protectionism.
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He was a lifelong Republican, but over the years, Harry Blackmun built a reputation as a liberal, sometimes defiant Justice, whose fierce protection of individual rights led some to anoint him the moral conscience of the court.
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