“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.” PeopleTryingEyeMotherCommunitySonNewsDisability Author:Judy Woodruff
“If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.” PeopleIfsEnoughGovernmentEnough TimeAmazing People Author:Judy Woodruff
“People want jobs, but nobody has a recipe for how to get them. And so they are trying different things.” PeopleWantTryingDifferentJobsDifferent ThingsRecipesTrying Different Things Author:Judy Woodruff
“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.” PeopleThinkingSchoolVoteElectionNeighborClosestSacramentsCivicsElection Day Author:Judy Woodruff
“I think it's important that campaigns be aired all the way through, that people aren't voting three weeks before, before debates are held.” PeopleThinkingWayImportantThreeWeekCampaignsDebateVoting Author:Judy Woodruff
“A definitive decision to say you should start people on therapy as soon as you know they're infected.” PeopleKnowsShouldDecisionTherapy Author:Judy Woodruff
“I think there's a fundamental moral issue about whether it's right for a machine to decide to kill a person. It's bad enough that people are deciding to kill people, but at least they have perhaps some moral argument that they're doing it to ultimately defend their families or prevent some greater evil.” PeopleThinkingPersonsEnoughEvilMoralIssuesGreaterArgumentMachinesFundamentalsMoral Issues Author:Judy Woodruff
“It's very typical that when two people are having lunch, they put a phone on the table between them.” PeopleTwoTablesPhonesLunchTypical Author:Judy Woodruff
“All the research shows that the presence of that phone will do two things to the conversation. It will make the conversation go to trivial matters, and it will decrease the amount of empathy that the two people in the conversation feel toward each other. That phone is a signal that either of us can put our attention elsewhere.” PeopleFeelsTwoMatterShowsAttentionAmountConversationEmpathyResearchPhonesTwo ThingsElsewhereSignalsDecrease Author:Judy Woodruff
“If you're using technology in a way that opens out conversation in your family, with your friends, with people you care about, I'm for that. But if you're using technology to silence the conversations with the people around you, then you have to create sacred spaces in your home, the kitchen, the dining room, the car.” PeopleIfsWayHomeCareSpaceRoomsSilenceTechnologyCarConversationSacredOur FamilyKitchenDiningDining RoomsSacred Space Author:Judy Woodruff
“At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits.” PeopleConversationIncreaseProductivityInterviewsPilotsHeadphonesCockpit Author:Judy Woodruff
“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.” PeopleHappensCreativityComputerLaysMeetingsPhonesFocusedProductiveConvinceCollaborationMailColleaguesCafeteria Author:Judy Woodruff
“Young people realize that something is amiss. There's a generation that fell in love with their phones, and it's very hard for them to see that there's a problem. But young people are desperate for the attention of their parents, who are really not paying attention to them.” PeopleHardProblemYoungParentRealizingAttentionGenerationsPhonesPay AttentionDesperate Author:Judy Woodruff
“That's one of the surprises in the research, that's it's not young people who are smitten with their phones. It's their parents who are not paying attention to them.” PeopleYoungParentAttentionResearchSurprisePhonesPay AttentionSmitten Author:Judy Woodruff
“I knew that Vaclav Havel didn't want to look into people's eyes, because he said that, when he was being interrogated during the communist period and had been taken to jail, that, if you look directly into somebody's eyes, they can persuade you. And so you can see that so clearly in this interview, where he's looking down.And I kept saying to him as we kept coming - came over here: " You have to look up."And I clearly had no influence on him.” PeopleIfsWantLooksSaidEyeTakenInfluencePeriodsDown AndInterviewsLook UpJailCommunistLooking Down Author:Judy Woodruff
“I think that, from Vaclav Havel own experience, he knew if we all paid attention to what was going on, the chances were that even the most horrible dictators wouldn't execute people.” PeopleIfsThinkingChanceAttentionPaidHorribleDictator Author:Judy Woodruff
“Vaclav Havel didn't want to ride around in big black cars. And he had his own car with a little red heart on it. And he loved to go out and talk to the people.” PeopleWantHeartLittlesBigsBlackCarRed Author:Judy Woodruff
“I think he [Vaclav Havel] is one of the great figures of the 20th century. He is one of the people that was able to be a part of overthrowing a dictatorial system by talking to people and understanding what the elements of democracy really are and respect for each other and elevating.” PeopleThinkingAbleUnderstandingTalkingDemocracyCenturyFiguresElements20th CenturyElevating Author:Judy Woodruff
“Vaclav Havel had moral stature. The president in first Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in many ways is a ceremonial role. And so, speaking out and having that strong moral fiber, people just knew that he told the truth to people who had only heard lies. And so I think his - that's his legacy.” PeopleThinkingWayFirstsLyingStrongPresidentMoralRolesHeardLegacyRepublicStatureFiberSpeaking OutCzechCzechoslovakiaMoral FiberCzech Republic Author:Judy Woodruff
“I think he [Vaclav Havel] probably would have liked to have written more plays. I think he missed being a playwright.I think he talked about wanting to write plays and keep appealing to people through that medium, rather than politics.” PeopleThinkingWritingPlayWrittenMediumsPlaywright Author:Judy Woodruff
“If you stimulate the economy by means of a tax cut, the people that you tend to be benefiting are the better off.” PeopleIfsMeanEconomyCuttingTaxesBetter OffTax Cuts Author:Judy Woodruff
“Americans tend not to be too enthusiastic about having their taxes raised again....But if the American people aren't going to accept it, if the politicians don't have the courage to raise taxes, what are we facing down the road?” PeopleIfsAcceptingPoliticianTaxesRaisesRaisedEnthusiasticDown The Road Author:Judy Woodruff
