Top 50 Judy Woodruff Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You may not realize it, but artificial intelligence is all around us.”

— Judy Woodruff

2. “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.”

— Judy Woodruff

3. “The field of artificial intelligence is pushing new boundaries.”

— Judy Woodruff

4. “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.”

— Judy Woodruff

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

— Judy Woodruff

6. “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.”

— Judy Woodruff

7. “Raising children is a journey generously sprinkled with what many view as teachable moments, perhaps none as challenging as those surrounding faith and religion.”

— Judy Woodruff

8. “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.”

— Judy Woodruff

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

— Judy Woodruff

10. “Some days you feel like you’ve had the greatest ego massage, then the next day you’ve been trampled on.”

— Judy Woodruff

11. “Election Day now has become the last day to vote.”

— Judy Woodruff

12. “Girl Scouts offered a wonderful group of girls where common concerns and interests could come together. We could learn, be challenged, and support one another. It was a very positive aspect of my life and played an important role in shaping who I am today.”

— Judy Woodruff

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

— Judy Woodruff

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

— Judy Woodruff

15. “Politics is in my blood. I’d love to be involved in 2008, maybe even ’06.”

— Judy Woodruff

16. “It’s very typical that when two people are having lunch, they put a phone on the table between them.”

— Judy Woodruff

17. “AFSCME stands for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.”

— Judy Woodruff

18. “In 2008, the Democrats made a great effort among African-American voters, and they did increase their turnout considerably, and among Latino voters.”

— Judy Woodruff

19. “Of course, man is also a weak creature with many bad qualities. And it depends on which of his qualities will in a certain social situation and in a certain climate prevail, which qualities will awaken. The totalitarian system was masterful in how it managed to mobilize all the bad qualities.”

— Judy Woodruff

20. “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.”

— Judy Woodruff

21. “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.”

— Judy Woodruff

22. “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.”

— Judy Woodruff

23. “The primary implication is that we’re going to combine our intelligence with computers. We’re going to make ourselves smarter. By the 2030s, they will literally go inside our bodies and inside our brains.”

— Judy Woodruff

24. “My job is to try and bring attention to places that don’t have it.”

— Judy Woodruff

25. “One of the main things we have been looking at is, how can we get a robot to think about situations it’s never seen before?”

— Judy Woodruff

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

— Judy Woodruff

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

— Judy Woodruff

28. “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.”

— Judy Woodruff

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

— Judy Woodruff

30. “I think we have reached such saturation levels, the money at this point doesn’t swing election.”

— Judy Woodruff

31. “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.”

— Judy Woodruff

32. “Machines are on track to be on par with human intelligence in less than 15 years.”

— Judy Woodruff

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

— Judy Woodruff

34. “You can find inspiration when you’re not even looking for it.”

— Judy Woodruff

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

— Judy Woodruff

36. “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.”

— Judy Woodruff

37. “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.”

— Judy Woodruff

38. “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.”

— Judy Woodruff

39. “When I think of grass I think of something to walk on, pot as something to put a plant in.”

— Judy Woodruff

40. “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.”

— Judy Woodruff

41. “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.”

— Judy Woodruff

42. “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.”

— Judy Woodruff

43. “In the study, 89 percent of Americans said that they interrupted their last social encounter by looking at a phone. And 82 percent of them said that it deteriorated the conversation.”

— Judy Woodruff

44. “Historically, when times are bad, voters, especially in the Industrial Midwest, have turned to the Democrats.”

— Judy Woodruff

45. “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.”

— Judy Woodruff

46. “This is naturally the most important thing, the dark traces left by the era of totalitarianism in the human mind, where is – are difficult to do away with. And this is a very demanding job.”

— Judy Woodruff

47. “Is this administration, the Clinton administration, an administration that needed defending?”

— Judy Woodruff

48. “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.”

— Judy Woodruff

49. “CD4 being the level of the lymphocyte that indicates the level of your immune function.”

— Judy Woodruff

50. “Every news organization should ideally be as broadly representative as possible.”

— Judy Woodruff