Top 35 Juan Williams Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The Republicans want to turn Medicare into a voucher plan that will end guaranteed coverage of medical bills for the elderly.”

— Juan Williams

2. “My wife and I, Delice and I, are empty nesters.”

— Juan Williams

3. “The Democrats thought that Hillary Clinton is too aggressive and too much into regime change.”

— Juan Williams

4. “In black America there’s such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.”

— Juan Williams

5. “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

6. “There’s a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation.”

— Juan Williams

7. “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

8. “Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there’s going to be a lot of flak, there’s going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.”

— Juan Williams

9. “Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.”

— Juan Williams

10. “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

11. “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

12. “You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict.”

— Juan Williams

13. “I think that you have a situation where one political party, in specific, if you watched the Republican debate, it’s all about terrorism.”

— Juan Williams

14. “The Tea Party is a fitting representation of our era of no-debate, politically correct politics, where each political side has its own media, and opposing views are almost never given a fair hearing. Conservatives listen only to conservatives, and liberals listen only to liberals. People are spared the inconvenience of facts that don’t fit their beliefs and the unpleasantness of seriously considering a point of view other than their own.”

— Juan Williams

15. “In 2008, when the real estate market blew up, it principally hurt older people who saw the value of their houses go down, along with their pension plans.”

— Juan Williams

16. “Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.”

— Juan Williams

17. “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

18. “Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.”

— Juan Williams

19. “There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades.”

— Juan Williams

20. “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

21. “The truth is that you – people are doing scientific research with fetal tissue and it’s not as if – no, this is brand-new news. This is something funded by.”

— Juan Williams

22. “Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.”

— Juan Williams

23. “I think you know what? You’ve got to believe in yourself. You can do it.”

— Juan Williams

24. “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

25. “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

26. “Sons love moms forevermore.”

— Juan Williams

27. “I’m not a predictable black liberal.”

— Juan Williams

28. “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

29. “Americans have a lower opinion of Congress than they do of the NFL replacement refs, head lice, traffic jams, cockroaches and even the group to which yours truly belongs – Washington political pundits.”

— Juan Williams

30. “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

31. “In 2007 the ‘dagger’ of an idea that killed President Bush’s effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.”

— Juan Williams

32. “Hikes in the debt ceiling – without any political demands from the opposition party – had been routine until President Obama took office.”

— Juan Williams

33. “If you’re a black kid, you’re going to have hell in your life.”

— Juan Williams

34. “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

35. “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

36. “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

37. “Teddy Kennedy rose to become a liberal lion by collaborating with Republicans.”

— Juan Williams

38. “The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don’t think he’ll raise it out of the New York people, I don’t think he’s going to raise it out the Hollywood people, so where’s the money going to come from for Barack Obama?”

— Juan Williams